Word: mayor
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...only in counties with Negro majorities. - In Macon, one Alabama county where Negro voters outnumbered whites even before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Negro leadership based at Tuskegee Institute supports the notion of racial balance in local government. In 1964 this group helped elect a white mayor of Tuskegee and a council of three whites and two Negroes. This year it has withheld support from a Negro candidate for sheriff because, says C. G. Gomillion, retired dean of the institute, "we would be vigorously opposed to anything that could lead to all-Negro government...
...Sorensen of Omaha [April 15] may be an above-average mayor, but please note: he walked through the waters of the Missouri, not on them...
...choice is in some cases apt to be dictated by old loyalties rather than performance or promise. A case in point is Michigan, where COPE almost certainly will throw its weight behind former Governor G. Mennen Williams in his contest with Detroit's dynamic (and liberal) Mayor Jerry Cavanagh for the Senate nomination. It may also try to influence primaries in Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and any other Southern state in which nonracist candidates may surface. In all, COPE will probably spend about $1,000,000 in 1966 on its three-pronged effort to register voters, promote...
...over after Diem, to last just three months. Then came General Nguyen Khanh, who gave way to Harvard-trained Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh ("Jack Owen") seven months later. Oanh had six days in office before Khanh bounced back in through the revolving door. Khanh gave way again, to Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, then whipped back in for a third-time rule of one month. Dr. Phan Huy Quat and his "Medicine Cabinet" had a final, halfhearted try at civilian rule before asking Ky and the generals to take over ten months...
Last week, in her 15th week of sneezing (a world record, so far as medical archives show), June Clark tried a different, long-distance-style therapy. Sent off by Bade County's Mayor Chuk Hall, she took her sinuses to Arizona-as the guest of Mesa's Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees, which have an understandable interest in promoting the curative powers of Arizona's supposedly pollen-free and allergen-free air. There, June still sneezed, but not so often...