Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election next November, but must face an uphill primary fight in April, Goodell has managed to alienate almost all of the Republican Party machinery in New York State during one year as Senator. He supported Lindsay for re-election before the Mayor lost the primary, and has campaigned for him since then. Before he got to the point of criticizing the President on the war, he launched an attack on Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. He voted against the ABM. (He once approved a statement his staff wrote condemning the ABM by phone from the President's Air Force...
...nothing serious. A touch of cancer here, a little tuberculosis there-you name it." Then she disposed of the rumor with one of her favorite words: "Nonsense!" At a kosher affair for 2,500 held at the Brooklyn Museum, she even did a little campaigning for hard-pressed Mayor John Lindsay, who desperately needs the Jewish vote to win re-election next month. Golda called him "my good friend John," and wished that "I had Mayor Lindsay's eloquence to tell what is in my heart tonight...
...office brings unbearable. Furthermore, his own past?his illegitimate birth, his "defection" from Nazi Germany and acceptance of Norwegian citizenship?turns many Germans from him. Those very credentials, however, enable him to speak far more candidly about Germany's past than Kiesinger, who had been a Nazi official. As mayor of West Berlin and later as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition, Brandt performed admirably. In Berlin, he coolly faced down the Soviets during the 1959 crisis, when Nikita Khrushchev threatened the city's links to the West. As Bonn's foreign policy expert since...
...Klaus Schütz, 43, the governing mayor of West Berlin who often does the exploratory spadework when Brandt wants to break new ground. Early last June, Schütz was welcomed as an official guest in Poland, which is now the prime candidate for new diplomatic overtures from Bonn. Schütz will either stay in Berlin or become a key aide to Brandt in Bonn...
...freshmen's heroes? More than half say they have none. Among the political leaders of the '60s, they most admire John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Eugene McCarthy. Among leaders now active, they approve of McCarthy, Senator Edmund Muskie, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Eldridge Cleaver and-of all people-Richard Nixon. Apparently convinced that he is sincerely trying to end the war and reform the draft, two out of three freshmen expressed respect for the President. But given the capacity of small student minorities to disrupt campuses and bedevil presidents, that vote of confidence...