Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellington ran as "an old-fashioned segregationist" with Clement's support, promised to close any integrated schools in case of violence. In a four-man, winner-take-all primary, Ellington's band snatched a last-minute victory from Memphis' Gore-like Reform Mayor Edmund Orgill, after rednecks blanketed rural West Tennessee with pictures of Orgill talking with Negro "friends during N.A.A.C.P. organizational meeting" (actually, he was talking to a nonpartisan civic-improvement group). Additional point for sign readers to note: victorious Segregationist Ellington and more rabid Candidate Andrew T. Taylor between them rolled...
...victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...
This year the memorial services were marked with a new bitterness. The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun editorialized: "We hope these commemorative events will bring home to those concerned with the dropping of the bomb that they were guilty of acts so shameful that Japan will never forget them." Said Mayor Watanabe: "We now view the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, no matter for what purpose, as a crime committed against mankind." And he added: "We have become frightened...
With no sizable community of French colons to harass and badger it, the Paris government has been able to conduct a far more consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations...
...such concessions -and of the obvious fact that French West Africa is wholly dependent on France and the French Union for nearly 80% of its trade-France has a reservoir of good will. French West Africa's most noted political leader is Félix Houphouet-Boigny, sophisticated mayor of the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan and a minister of state in De Gaulle's Cabinet. Says he: "We don't want independence. My neighbor Nkrumah in Ghana is independent, and as a result must support an army which is very expensive. Who is really...