Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idle political pledge when Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty threatened: "I haven't let loose on him yet." Yorty's target is City Councilman Thomas Bradley, 51, a black lawyer and former police lieutenant who had outdrawn the mayor 42% to 26% in the April 1 mayoral primary.-With a runoff election next week, Bradley has a sizable lead; a recent poll found voters lined up 52% for Bradley, 35% for Yorty. One result is that Yorty, 59, has been waging a desperate, often venomous campaign against Bradley...
Yorty has denounced Bradley as dishonest, a Black Power advocate and an associate of radical leftists. He has gone so far as to charge Bradley, a former policeman, with being anti-law enforcement because of his criticism of the police department's community relations program. The mayor, while accusing his opponent of a racist approach, easily invokes the race issue himself. "In Los Angeles," he says, "you don't have the mayor fighting with the police department as they are in Cleveland, where they elected a Negro mayor." The Los Angeles Times, arch critic of the mayor...
...table; he dines bei Ria so often that she refers to him familiarly as "der Willy" and sees to it that his after-dinner coffee always contains the shot of rum he favors. At another table may be West German President-elect Gustav Heinemann. Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz, a patron since his days in the Bundestag, is always seated at the same table overlooking the garden: he usually wants fresh pineapple for dessert. With Bavarian gusto, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss is fond of dropping in for post-midnight salami, black bread, beer and Steinhager...
...lunar landings. The book, which will be published by Little, Brown & Co. and excerpted in LIFE, is also likely to net Mailer another large chunk of money in movie rights-that is, when it finally gets written. "I'm devoting all my time to my candidacy for mayor," said Mailer. "The only writing I'm doing at this time has to do with the campaign...
That is one plot, and it is worth a laugh every other minute. Along with it goes a co-plot about a manhunt for a murderer whom the sheriff (Charles White) has labeled a Red Menace. With an election pending, the mayor has a certain cynical interest in corralling the law-and-order voters. John McGiver plays him with the voice of high-pitched dismay and the countenance of flinty melancholy that make all his appearances comic delights. Naturally, this plot thickens and quickens as the rival newsmen cook up story angles and bait the mayor and the sheriff...