Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Lindsay in his attack on the campaign issue of law and order speaks of liberty. I find myself wondering if the liberty that he speaks of is the liberty to be afraid to walk the streets of a once-great city after dark, or the liberty to refrain from using its parks or the liberty of the people of that city to bolt and rebolt their doors and windows so that they may sleep free from the fear of being murdered in their beds. If this be liberty, then give me death...
...Communists have been left unchecked in this country for so long, and I don't think the average American is aware of it," says Ron. "Look at the riots at Columbia and Berkeley. Who gains by all this? The Communists. It makes them gloat," Sally agrees and adds: "Mayor Daley handled it right. He was prepared. The Democratic Convention wasn't a fraternity initiation." Ron, a Lutheran, believes that there is too much permissiveness everywhere: "I would have gone to college if I had been spanked a few more times...
...Lawrence and the elder Green are deard, and have left no heirs capable of ruling the realm. Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh and Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia can barely control their own baronies, let alone work effectively on the statewide level...
...Block Partnership program, which unites the residents of a black ghetto block with a white civic-action group. These two sides discuss and tackle all kinds of problems, ranging from jobs to plumbing. In three months, Bourgeois' program has proved so effective that he was invited by Mayor Jonsson of Dallas to help set up the same operation there. The key, says Bourgeois, is involvement. "You establish the feeling that 'We can do it ourselves, we can chart a course...
...first response came from Mayor John Lindsay. Worried by ghetto protests and hoping the move would get him more state aid, Lindsay came out in early 1967 for decentralizing New York's schools. In December of the same year, he asked the New York State Legislature to dismantle New York's school system into a series of smaller districts controlled by joint parent-teacher-administrator school boards...