Word: mayors
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Supposedly the most liberal city in the country, New York, proved susceptible to the chant. Mayor John Lindsay, a progressive who only four years ago was one of the most attractive figures in the Republican Party, lost his party's primary last week to a political nobody, State Senator John Marchi. On the Democratic side, Robert Wagner, Lindsay's predecessor for twelve years, lost to City Comptroller Mario Procaccino, an emotional performer whose politics are not merely old but primordial. Though neither could be called racist or bigot, the victors had based their campaigns on one theme: public...
Some Northern Writer. The results, to be sure, were not so conclusive as they had been in the recent mayoral elections in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Lindsay lost by only 1.5%, and even in defeat has a good chance of re-election in November on the tickets of New York's Liberal Party and his newly formed coalition, tentatively called the Urban Party. Many voters, too, unquestionably felt that they had ample reason, apart from race or ideology, to oppose the mayor on his record, which has had more than its share of disasters. At the same time, more...
...Georgia, the governor and the state chairman pick convention delegates themselves. In Illinois, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley decides who shall be "elected" and how they shall vote. In other states, precinct caucuses are held without public notice. In Copiah, Miss., a fictitious name was placed on the delegate list...
...Premier. He is a superb politician who can be counted on to keep Pompidou's fences well mended. The former Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was an inept campaigner who could not even win an Assembly seat from Paris' usually safe 7th arrondissement. Chaban-Delmas became mayor of Bordeaux at 32, replacing a socialist who had held the job for 19 years. He has been re-elected regularly because of his public works, which included the first bridges over the Garonne River built since the days of Napoleon III, and his high capacity to see-and be seen...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) Charles Evers, LL.D., mayor of Fayette...