Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Bernadette made a point of posing with Mayor John Lindsay, who gave her the key to the city and declared himself a victim of "love at first sight." But she reacted differently to two big-city mayors with less liberal qualifications. Of Chicago's Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell...
...holiday, it was also a demonstration to the adult world that young people could create a kind of peace in a situation where none should have existed, and that they followed a mysterious inner code of law and order infinitely different from the kind envisioned by Chicago's Mayor Daley. In the end, even the police were impressed. Said Sullivan County Sheriff Louis Ratner: "This was the nicest bunch of kids I've ever dealt with...
Last week New York's Mayor John Lindsay appointed two young trustees to the city's board of higher education, which governs New York's 19-campus City University. Maria Josefa Canino, 25, the daughter of a Puerto Rican grocer, is a seasoned Harlem social worker and the youngest person ever named to the board. Jean-Louis d'Heilly, 28, is a doctoral candidate in political science at City University. Last winter he organized a huge demonstration to protest cuts in the university's funds, a move that deeply impressed Lindsay. The new appointments, says...
That recent claim by Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer did not endear him to the owners of the city's luxury hotels, who proudly advertise their beaches as private and even hire guards to chase away non-guests. Beachgoers in other parts of the U.S. may also be skeptical. As many of them have learned this summer, the beaches are not always open to all. In fact, more and more resort towns now boast beach laws that effectively bar anyone but a resident...
...made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...