Word: mayor
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...University newspaper encouraged students to "zip" to the mining town of Zap, N.D. (pop. 300) for a Mother's Day "Zap-Out." Sure enough, late last week columns of collegians began rolling down Zap's unpaved main thoroughfare, their cars emblazoned with signs readiag ZAP OR BUST. Mayor Norman Fuchs, sporting a ZAP N.D. OR BUST! sweat shirt, and some of the townsfolk turned out to offer a friendly greeting. All seemed to believe the college newspaper's plan of turning Zap-with its two bars and one café-into "the Fort Lauderdale of the North...
...Mayor Fuchs, who only hours before had boosterish dreams of a boomlet for Zap, now walked along Main Street in a daze, saying: "Animals! Animals!" He tried to bring the fire under control, but when the volunteer fire department arrived a score of youths jumped on the truck and began taking it apart. Finally, the thoroughly frustrated Fuchs called for help. Governor William Guy responded with 500 National Guardsmen, who came dressed for combat and armed with rifles and 5-ft. clubs. Within an hour the students were gone, leaving behind a shattered community. Not one of the town...
...Cambridge Housing Convention, a group of 900 Cambridge residents concerned with the city housing crisis, sent a rent control proposal to the City Council and the Mayor's City Manager's Committee on rent control yesterday. The Convention's proposal calls for a four year rollback of rents in most rented housing in the city to the level of January...
People talked about dynasties, how one had crumbled and another had taken its place. But they said the same thing after the Mets beat the Yankees a few years ago in the Mayor's Trophy Game. And didn't the Yankees win the World Series, and didn't the Mets establish themselves in the league cellar? Parker went to Penn in the old days, and he knew that the whole situation just wasn't right, so he sent his crew out Saturday to restore a little sanity to the athletic picture...
Waterford is a spruce seaside town in southern Ireland known for its cut glass and warm hospitality. But even Gaelic graciousness has its bounds. In Chicago for St. Patrick's Day, Waterford's Mayor William Jones invited his counterpart, Richard Daley, to Ireland this summer and planned to offer him the keys to the city. All very nice, except that the Irish are not entirely sure that they want King Richard on the ould sod. Waterford's Labor Party termed the invitation "a shameful action," declaring: "We are not satisfied that Mayor Daley has cleared himself...