Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanford activist points to the successes at Palo Alto as a harbinger for more change. Fuentes, a special assistant to San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, graduated from Stanford last year after helping lead the movement to diversify a Western Civilization core curriculum that protestors said studied only white...
...McLuhan-wise chorus from those being clubbed: "The whole world is watching!" Then, through the death stench of the Chicago stockyards, inside the Democratic Convention, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff on the podium denouncing the "gestapo tactics" of the police, and down on the floor, in the Illinois delegation, Mayor Richard Daley, face contorted, screaming at Ribicoff. TV's nation of lip readers thought they saw Daley emit the words: "F you, you Jew son of a bitch . . . Go home!" Daley later said he never used language like that. In any case, a century of backroom politics died at that instant...
...Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic Party lay in ruins. An alarmed Middle America turned its attention to Miami where the Republicans, unbeleaguered by the Armies...
...Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four-year term as mayor of Atlanta...
...order was beseiged. A new order was being born -- then another Kennedy lay dead. Rage met with Mayor Daley in Chicago...