Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor of beautiful San Francisco say that an ugly mass of glass and cement would be "a very welcome addition to the city's skyline...
...earlier part of this century, Harvard was viewed, in large measure correctly, as a bastion of Yankee privileges. Town-gown clashes took on the added dimension of ethnic squabbles. An Irish mayor named Sullivan would denounce a Yankee president of Harvard by the name of Conant: Boston newspaper headlines would recount the clash the next morning. For the most part, Harvard reacted to the Irish influx much as the Boston Brahmins had: the University made itself into a citadel and generally stood aloof from the rest of Cambridge...
Others have chosen to publicize their plans in detail. San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa and San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, for example, have jointly issued specific guidelines covering campus protest. The regulations, says Alioto, boil down to "dissent si, violence no." Violence is defined to include physical blocking of a doorway and occupation of a building as well as throwing bricks and carrying guns. "The city will be prepared to act in advance of possible violence rather than reaction to it," promises Alioto. "We've seen too much of bayonets and buckshot in California...
Matter of Trust. When the Citizens State Bank of Alvarado collapsed in April, the F.D.I.C.'s chore was somewhat more complicated. The federal agency is suing the bank's president, Jack Park, who has been mayor of the town since 1954, for $512,000 that it says he embezzled. But the F.D.I.C. seems alone in taking offense. "I've never heard such nice things about me as people said after the trouble started," says Park. In fact, when the Pioneer and Old Settlers Association held its annual meeting last month, its members elected Park treasurer to guard...
...Bank of Lovelady (pop. 644) used to advertise that "we love people, particularly people to whom money is a mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot pay, Washington will have to absorb the loss. "The bank understood the people," mourns Mayor Bruton, summing up what seems to be the prevailing philosophy...