Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early returns indicated that Nixon would probably win Alaska's three electoral votes, while Democratic House speaker Mike Gravel would edge out Anchorage Mayor Elmer Rasmuson for the Senate seat vacated by Ernest Gruening. Gruening's write-in eort to keep his seat seemed destined to fail badly...
Sears' election is vital, though, not because the Sheriff's office is so important, but because his defeat would probably both end his political career, and promote his opponent, Thomas Eisenstadt, into a front-running position for Mayor...
Eisenstadt is a political opportunist of the rankest sort. A "progressive" opponent of Mrs. Hicks when liberalism was popular, Eisenstadt now comes down hard for law and order, opposes community participation within Boston's Model City area, opposes the volunteer deputy program, and upbraids Mayor White for not calling in the National Guard to quell the disturbances at Boston English School last month...
...Jesse Jackson, the Mayor of Resurrection City, transformed a session of the Harvard Law School Forum into an evangelical meeting last night as he preached against "the injustice of releasing black men into capitalism without the necessary capital to survive...
Barnett Newman created a "Lace Cur tain for Mayor Daley" made of the barbed wire used for police barricades in August and spattered with red paint. Robert Motherwell decided to send two already completed abstract expressionist canvases. "The significance is to participate," he said. "This show represents the politics of feeling, not the politics of ideology." Sculptor Robert Morris settled for a telegram. His suggestion: redo the Chicago fire...