Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Chan Coulter, a retired Army colonel, credits his one-woman force with providing a "very special kind of protection in our town." But soon University Heights, which hired Mrs. Winders in 1935 when she asked for the job, will have to start looking for a new marshal. Winders and Portia are contemplating retirement. "The council," says the grandmother, "thinks I'm getting loo old to chase cars." The council may have a point. At 70, Esther Winders claims to be the oldest working policewoman in the nation...
...most of Briare's 5,140 people, the referendum seems awfully remote. Hardly anyone except Mayor Henri Dabard, a brisk ex-World War I fighter pilot, talks about it in terms of regionalization or senate reform. Instead, Briare will be voting oui or non on De Gaulle, just as it has in the previous four referendums the general has staged since...
Winning the Works. Down at the Café de l'Agriculture, on the corner of the Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council...
...cows on 50 hectares, says his ballot will be blank. "The referendum," he says, "tries to put too many things together. It's too complicated for yes or no." Briare's local Communists-Dabard puts their total vote at 421 or 422-are fond of their autocratic mayor. "He's done a lot for the town, for the workers," says Lucien Delsartre, a Communist labor leader employed by the Otis elevator factory at nearby Gien. But Delsartre and his fellow Communists will vote against De Gaulle's proposals. "I have nothing against him," Delsartre says...
...Frenchmen voted the same way they talked, the impression is that Briare will reject the referendum's proposals. I found only two people, the mayor and an insurance man, who said they would vote yes. Everyone else-workers, farmers, shopkeepers and professional men-said they would either vote no or cast a blank ballot. But Frenchmen have a way of confounding opinion seekers. Pierre Renaud, Briare's pharmacist-tobacconist, perhaps expressed it best. "The French are a funny people. They always complain a lot but usually vote oui." In France, it is the mind that does the talking...