Word: mayor
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Even at a modest level, the citizens are finding beautification a worthy cause. In Gary, Ind., the wife of Mayor A. Martin Katz came back from the White House Conference on Natural Beauty determined to follow Mrs. Johnson's example; she took up a collection of money and materials from individuals and businesses, renovated an old pavilion, restocked a lagoon, and installed night lighting in Marquette Park. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Lorna Smith watched Lady Bird on TV, picked up a trowel, marched out and planted a 30-ft. bed of iris next to the bus stop...
...White House, meanwhile, ordered an investigation of what Mayor John F. Shelley called "the critical unemployment situation" in Negro areas...
...Massachusetts history, will be opposed by Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 46, an unimpressive if well-meaning former Governor who was ignominiously defeated for nomination by his own Lieutenant Governor in the 1964 primary. This year Peabody won the Democratic nomination after a bruising battle with Boston's two-term mayor, John Collins, 47, an icy pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt...
...missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...
...shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody wanted it. "I even tried the Prime Minister and the lord mayor," said Gray. Finally a few members of the Dublin City Council agreed to meet Gray in a perfunctory little ceremony in O'Connell Street, where they accepted the head and dragged it away in a sack to storage...