Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. Alaska is also rated a tossup, because of a write-in campaign for 81 -year-old Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, who was unseated in a primary by Real Estate Developer Mike Gravel. The write-in greatly enhances the hopes of Elmer Rasmuson, Republican mayor of Anchorage. Some significant contests...
...York's divisive Democrats relish a bruising battle-particularly when it is among themselves. Their 1968 performance is typical. Irish-born Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, 61, brother of the late mayor of New York William O'Dwyer and an early supporter of Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid, adamantly shuns Hubert Humphrey and the national Democratic ticket, refusing to compromise his single-minded opposition to the Viet Nam conflict. Party regulars are supporting him lukewarmly if at all. Despite a loyal army of 25,000 youthful McCarthyite volunteers, O'Dwyer seems certain to furnish liberal...
...Mayor Daley's head on a platter. Iowa University Sculptor Hans Breder, who makes delicate, dicelike constructions, had one of his students blast holes in a pair with a rifle, then put the violated work in a glass case and presented it as his offering...
...1960s, instead of editorializing in melodramatic imagery, the artist is apt to employ the more oblique weapons of abstract parody and wit. His sentiments are no less angry on that account-as could be seen last week in Chicago. At the Feigen Gallery, 47 artists displayed acid valentines to Mayor Richard J. Daley, 21 of them composed especially for the show...
...resulting exhibit is not, strictly speaking, obscene, but many of the artists in it use phallic and fecal images to express their feelings about the mayor. William Copley sent in a 1965 painting in which a woman exposes her plump backside. Oldenburg did a series of 48 indefinably nasty plaster versions of Chicago's distinctive red fireplugs, which for diverse reasons remind him of the plug-ugly Chicago cops. He also made a drawing of a "proposed colossal monument" for Chicago showing