Word: mayor
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WHITE PAPER: THE ORDEAL OF THE AMERICAN CITY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Boston and Boston's Mayor Kevin White are featured in the second of a three-part series on the urban crisis...
...Walter Washington. As the first mayor of our nation's capital, he has proved to be steadfast and undaunted in his dedication to equality, unity and peace...
...groups of the poor sought in city after city to elbow aside mayors and established agencies and take over the programs, Johnson came to fear that he had created a political monster. At one point, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley became "mightily upset" because the federal poverty project was becoming a "champion grabber and distributor of antipoverty funds." Daley relished that role for himself, and he let Washington know that he did not like the competition. According to Moynihan, Johnson told OEO "to keep community action programs as quiet as possible...
...Washington, President Lyndon B. was bedded down with it - or something suspiciously resembling it. In Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley was just recovering from it. In Hollywood, Actress Natalie Wood was felled by it while shooting a $3,000,000 film. In Seattle, a pair of twin baby orangutans were placed in isolation when they came down with its symptoms. With jet-age speed A2-Hong Kong-68, more commonly known as "Hong Kong flu," spanned the nation last week, respecting neither station nor species...
...audience rose and cried: "Millions were murdered-and now a sentence like this!" As Rehse, his greying head raised high, tried to walk from the room, an elderly man slapped his face and cried: "Shame, you blood judge, for all the victims you have on your conscience!" Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press...