Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What happens when a splenetic mayor, who does not take the mildest kind of criticism in good grace, thinks that a loquacious politician, whose ambitions he did not approve of, has become cheeky? (See THE NATION, "Of Heart and Spleen...
Vindictiveness is not one of Hubert Humphrey's vices. Loquacity certainly is. During his first lecture as a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, the former Vice President got on the subject of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Looking back at his presidential campaign, Humphrey commented that the riots during the Chicago convention were a "tragedy" and "I was a victim." Among numerous other reflections, he observed that Mayor Daley "didn't exactly break his heart...
...GETTING worse all the time. You look at this crazy, screwed-up world bursting out all around you, and you wonder how long it will be before you're as nuts as Mayor Daley and his cops. So what can you do? You can cancel your subscription to the Times and start reading Field and Stream. Or hide in your room and watch I Dream of Jeannie on TV. Or take drugs and forget about everything...
After declaring that he was "encouraged" by the Soviet initiative, Kiesinger asked Mayor Schütz to be ready to enter negotiations with the East Germans. Schütz sent a representative into East Berlin to open the talks. His envoy returned disappointed. The East Germans demanded the cancellation of the Federal Assembly before any other issue could even be discussed. Signaling a switch in the Soviet position, Izvestia bluntly asserted that West Germans could expect no reciprocity for removing the Federal Assembly from West Berlin...
...palace was actually chopped up into "a squalid maze of schoolrooms and government offices, each with a stovepipe sticking drunkenly out of a window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office. But the real power still rested with the bishop in his diocesan quarters-marble floors, red plush draperies, gold-framed loveseats-and with those few petty officials, from policeman to tax collector, anciently privileged to corruption...