Word: mayors
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...ballots were in and counted, the outcome decisive. By 53.3% to 46.7%, Los Angeles voters last week elected Mayor Sam Yorty to a third term, repudiating both their own primary verdict of the previous month and election-eve opinion surveys. There was a palpable realization that something was missing. No gracious concession came from the loser, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, who said that the preceding weeks had witnessed "the dirtiest campaign in this city's history." Yorty, normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made...
Love It or Leave It. The mayor found his salvation in Angelenos' apprehensions over racial and radical unrest. Like other cities, Los Angeles has witnessed campus turmoil down to the high school level. Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance. Two extremist black organizations, US and the Panthers, have been feuding with each other as well as with whites. The promising community relations program promoted by former Police Chief Thomas Reddin has all but disintegrated recently, stimulating new tensions between police and the ghettos...
...April vote as evidence that if Bradley won, police morale would be impaired. Reddin, who took a lucrative job as a television newscaster, seemed to support Yorty's stand while interviewing the two candidates on TV just before the runoff. His questioning of Bradley was harsh; to the mayor, Reddin was uncommonly sweet. Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor...
...leftover of the old Progressive era, the device allows citizens, by a two-stage process of petition and referendum, to oust an incumbent. Rarely attempted seriously, recall did unseat a Los Angeles mayor...
Died. Robert Briscoe, 74, the irrepressible Orthodox Jew who was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1956-57 and 1961-62; in Dublin. No one was ever more fiercely Irish than "Bobby" Briscoe. He was an I.R.A. gunrunner in Ireland's struggle for independence, then an activist in the civil war that followed. In 1927 he was elected to the Irish Dail (Parliament) and his terms as Lord Mayor were marked by many trips abroad promoting trade and tourism. His election, said Briscoe, would show the world that "at least in Ireland there is absolute tolerance...