Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor, the scandals could be disastrous. Yorty's principal voter support has come from the white middle-class residents of the San Fernando Valley, a vast expanse of tract homes and shopping centers northwest of the city's heart. "Sam's people," as they are called, do not insist upon political heavyweights as their elected representatives. But they are strong law-and-order advocates with an especially low tolerance for official malfeasance...
...access to West Berlin. In a last-minute effort to avert a crisis, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger summoned Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin for an extraordinary 2½-hour session at the Palais Schaumburg, but failed to find a solution. After an emergency session of the West Berlin Senate, Mayor Klaus Schütz appealed to West Berliners to remain calm. They were bracing for what many of them expected might develop into the severest threat to the city's economic viability since 1961, when former Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to turn over the responsibility for West Berlin...
...stage, engaging and convincing as he puts across the show's only ballad. Randy Parry (Belle Bottom) develops the indifferent drunken daughter's part well, but is overshadowed by the sensational obscene clowning of Ed Strong and Randy Guffey as the secretarial pool, which Rock lends Bootleg's mayor in anticipation of future favors. Smaller parts are handled with uniform wit and energy, though Bill Kiely rates a plate of cold spaghetti for his tepid attempts at an Italian accent...
Relatively Closed Town. Hatcher, 35, the mayor of a smaller, seedier and far less diversified city (65% of the work force is employed by U.S. Steel), was able to tap foundations as weU as the Federal Government. When he threatened to re-evaluate U.S. Steel property, the results were immediate. The company started building middle-income houses, recently gave the city land for a park and donated some funds. Altogether, Gary has received more than $30 million in federal and private grants-more than in its entire 62-year history...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the practice has "become like a parody on the old Negro spiritual Take Your Troubles to the Lord. Everyone brings his troubles to city hall...