Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as he contemplated licensing still another supermercato over the protests of the Reds and the merchants, Milan's Mayor Virgilio Ferrari said: "It doesn't matter to me that those whom people call supercapitalists are running this business. What matters is that people pay less." (Supermarket prices average about 10% below those in the shops.) From a Milan housewife came even more heartfelt praise. Said she: "I enjoy a trip to the supermarket more than seeing Yul Brynner in the movies...
...votes, with only 572 needed to nominate their candidate. That being so, they would have none of Tom Murray. But De Sapio was willing to try to avoid an open, party-fracturing break with Harriman. Efforts to find a compromise candidate inevitably turned to New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, popular in the city and upstate with both the liberal amateurs and the professionals...
Salted Caves. Norway's Heyerdahl got on famously with the native leaders, who claimed descent from the last surviving "long-eared" statue builder-the rest had been slaughtered, they said, by "short-eared" Polynesian invaders centuries ago. Easter Island's Mayor Pedro Atan demonstrated how the statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through...
...placate hostile aku-akus, shouting out ritual invocations such as: "Wizard Juan, stand up for good luck!" Only slowly did it dawn on Heyerdahl that the natives might be hipsters who were taking a square for a ride. One native was caught scattering potsherds in an excavation site; Mayor Atan himself twice salted secret caves with stone sculptures that he had made himself...
...Boston's indestructible, scallawaggish ex-Mayor James Michael Curley, 83, who claims in tones of delighted outrage that he is the model of the indestructible, scallawaggish politico in The Last Hurrah, caused hurrahs among movie pressagents and headline writers: he filed for an injunction against the Boston showing of the novel's movie version. Court hearing has been set for this week, but chances are slim that Boston, or any other place, will be deprived of seeing the Boss's adventures as portrayed by Spencer Tracy...