Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been suggested that perhaps the Mayor Daley school of labor relations would have helped settle the strike-that is, a subtle word last November to both sides that if they did not reach an agreement by a certain date, there would be a heavy weight falling on their heads. Do you agree...
...organized crime, drugs and prostitution "like blood attracts sharks." Agrees Dade County Sheriff E. Wilson Purdy: "Organized crime is south Florida's biggest growth industry. They're all over the place now. Casinos would be a major step toward a complete mob takeover." Adds former Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer. "The hotel people have it all backward. They must first fix up their places...
...stiff upper lip," explained the 5-ft. 6-in. Hawn, who taped the meeting for her March 1 TV special on CBS. More elbow and less lip might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk (son of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk) learned that a group of Buenos Aires rugby players were planning a U.S. visit. Rusk, an old rugger from his days at the University of California, naturally invited the boys home to New Mexico for a match against the locals...
...heady victory to be elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, but Ernest ("Dutch") Morial's first task was to find a job. He had left his state judgeship to run for city hall, and there was no paycheck in sight until his inauguration in May. "This is no joke," grumbled the politician after the election. "I'm looking through the classified ads." Morial is looking no more. Since his plight got some national press, the mayor-to-be has landed a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a once-a-week teaching assignment...
...mayor also serves as the chairman of the School Committee, which is divided three to three between independents and members of the Cambridge Convention slate. It is still unclear as to what the committee's major issues and voting coalitions will be and so the impact of Danehy, Roman Hruska's ideological twin, remains uncertain...