Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baby Flo", the inflatable whale balloons, flew above Boston yesterday in honor of Mayor Kevin White's proclaimed "Save the Whale...
...between, handling the public relations and series subscription campaign as well as procuring space in some of Boston's more desirable performance halls: Berklee, the Hotel Bradford Ballroom, and the Boston University Theater. Since Articulture is non-profit, funding for the $50,000 program is coming from the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, the Massachusetts Contemporary Dance Association, the Boston Phoenix, the Capezio Foundation, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and an $8500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts...
...southern tip is South Padre Island, a town of 700 permanent residents and, on weekends, as many as 50,000 sun seekers. Only 20 miles from Mexico via the causeway to Brownsville, South Padre has a comparable latitude-and, partisans assert, a more congenial climate-than Miami. Says former Mayor John Austin, a retired Marine Corps major and avid fisherman: "I really think the possibilities here are unlimited." Not surprisingly, the town is alive with the sound of bulldozers, and spanking new condominiums are sprouting like dune grass. Eight buildings with 306 condominium units are under construction, and 116 more...
...Former Mayor Austin, who is now a local real estate broker, describes what happened when he went with an assistant state attorney general to a site bought by a Canadian developer. "I was standing more than 200 ft. from the water. I thought this was the point we could start building. But this young fuzzy-cheeked assistant A.G. was way up in the dunes, maybe 30 ft. behind me. 'What the hell you doing up there?' I asked. He says, 'I'm looking for the vegetation line...
...were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, who milked the bestselling Boss from Daley's two decades in office, already refers to the gracious woman . . . young woman . . . girl as "Mayor Bossy...