Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy Captain Archie Kuntze, 46, is a bemedaled battler and an able administrator. As U.S. supply chief in South Viet Nam last year, he handled the suffocating inundation of U.S. men and materiel with such pervasive authority that he was dubbed - and happilly proclaimed himself - "the American mayor of Saigon." Last week, like many an American mayor before him, Kuntze (pronounced Koont-zee) found himself on public trial for all the semiprivate sins that high office invites...
After a year as deputy mayor of New York City, sharp-spoken Lawyer Robert Price, 34, thought it was time to turn his sword into a plowshare, resigned to become executive vice president of the mutual-funding Dreyfus Corp. "The only advice I can give my successor," he said, "is to work hard, stay clean, walk with your back to the wall and keep your Bible handy...
Grim Days Ahead. Florentines attacked the government for delays in relief. "How is it possible to move this mass of liquid and mud with shovels?" complained Mayor Piero Bargellini. "We need earth movers, bulldozers, trucks." In the Italian Parliament, Premier Aldo Moro was jeered-mostly trom the Communist benches-when he rose to speak. The government appropriated $320 million for emergency aid, raising the gasoline tax 6.4? per gallon...
...Detroit, Mayor Jerry Cavanagh lost his battle with the city's retailers, and this year the annual "Detroit Aglow" ceremony will light off on Nov. 21 instead of Nov. 28. In Chicago, Montgomery Ward sent out its holiday catalogues three weeks earlier this year than last, Marshall Field & Co. will have its Christmas trees up a week earlier, and along Michigan Avenue, the stores of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Assn. have put up their decorations two weeks earlier than last year...
...bolstered largely by women shopping for their menfolk at Christmas), Revlon, Inc., last week uncorked its brand-new, 18-item Braggi collection, including cologne "designed for the individualist," and a nightcap facial massage "to relieve a look of worry and fatigue." Mary Lindsay, wife of New York's mayor, confides: "There is nothing that has wheels or that flies that John Jr. hasn't marked in the F.A.O. Schwarz Christmas catalogue...