Word: mayors
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...from labor, from all the areas." Not by choice, he ended up with a group that is all white, all male, all Republican. As a rather obvious gesture of compensation, Nixon began the TV show by reappointing Walter Washington, a Negro Democrat, to a second term as commissioner, or mayor, of Washington, D.C. Black leaders were not appeased. Said Clarence Mitchell, N.A.A.C.P. director in the Capital: "Johnson, a President from Texas, desegregated the Cabinet, while Nixon, a President from California, resegregated the Cabinet...
While the announcement indicates the direction of Rockefeller's political future, it also throws a temporary roadblock in the path of New York City's Mayor John Lindsay. At the moment, Lindsay's popularity in the city is at a low ebb, and the Governor's office would have been an attractive alternative should his citywide appeal continue to diminish. The. Rockefeller decision eliminates that alternative. Moreover, the mayor would probably have little chance of dislodging fellow Republican Charles E. Goodell from his Senate seat. What ever his prospects in the next two years, Lindsay...
...wangle twelve-hour passes into town have strict orders to avoid contact with civilians, and they often gaze longingly into the display windows of sweetshops without ever working up the courage to go inside and buy something. "They don't have anything to do with us," says Mayor Vaclav Kulich of the tiny town of Benatky, near the Milovice base. "They might as well be ghosts...
...capita income." But "it is hard for them to adjust to the egalitarian society--or the approximation to it--in Israel," he said, and he tells a story he heard after the war to illustrate: "Many Arab notables from the occupied territory visited Jerusalem after the war. The Mayor of Jerusalem showed a visiting notable around the city, and when they returned to the car there was a ticket on it. The Arab asked about the paper on the front of the car, and the Mayor replied that he had probably parked wrong. The Arab asked if the person...
...Nixon tried to mollify his intellectual critics by appointing a few of their spokesmen to sub-Cabinet posts, but last Wednesday night he reaffirmed his fundamental ties with the Quiet Americans who elected him. Nixon's entire Cabinet show--from the patronizing note about "high marks" for Walter Washington, Mayor of the District, to the line about "respecting" Dean Rusk for the "dignified" way he blindly ignored any suggestion that the war might be a mistake--was aimed at TV sets in warm middle-class living rooms...