Word: mayor
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With returns in from all but eight of California's 30,586 precincts, Conservative Reagan had 1,385,550 votes to 663,199 for Dairyman George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco. The G.O.P.'s 2-to-l choice underscored the Democratic dogfight in which Brown got 1,334,286 votes v. 994,821 for his principal opponent, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, a feisty maverick who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and calls Brown a "captive of left-wingers...
...asked to leave by library officials because she did not attend the University. In ten minutes, her father was on the phone protesting to Whitlock. When a fire destroyed a Cambridge Church, the congregation wanted to see if one of its pictures would be worth restoring. Church leaders called Mayor Daniel J. Hayes; Hayes called Whitlock, and Whitlock called Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, to ask him to study the painting...
John F. Collins, mayor of the new Boston, declared war on old Boston politics Friday night at the Democratic Pre-Primary Convention. In doing so he set the theme for this summer's Democratic Primary campaigns...
...Mayor's daring charge that Powers was responsible for Peabody's successful nomination attempt was not just a hasty remark; it was part of a prepared text and part of Collins' strategy...
Essentially Collins is trying to strengthen his image as an apolitical, professionalistic administrator and mayor. And charging that the "bosses" are against him seems to be the easiest way to do this. Collins' strategy recognizes the growing electoral strength of the young, well-educated suburban voters who have abandoned city life...