Word: mayors
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After meeting last weekend in the consolation round of the Mayor's Cup tournament, the two squads renew their rivalry today in Hanover...
Kurt Schmoke, now the Mayor of Baltimore, played quarterback at Yale during the late 1960s but was eventually switched to defensive back...
KEVIN WHITE--"Mayor DeLuxe" and "Kevin from Heaven" were both nicknames for the mayor of Boston from 1967 to 1983--the man credited for transforming the city into what Bostonians like to refer to as "a world-class city." Elected as a liberal reformer in the midst of the city's busing crisis, White's controversial personality came to dominate the Boston politics during his years in office. As the 1983 mayoral election was beginning to heat up, speculation ran rampant over White's decision to seek reelection. White spent $30,000 for a political commercial in which he would...
Since then, King, a state representaive from Boston's South End from 1979 to 1983, has run for mayor twice and Congress once without success. In the process, he has abandoned his once-trademark dashikis for more mainstream suits and bowties. Most recently the 6'3" bald, bearded, MIT professor has spearheaded the unsuccessful effort to have the predominantly Black parts of Boston secede and form a community known as Mandela...
...FLYNN--The present mayor of Boston will most likely be remembered as the "People' Mayor." Flynn, after succeeding White, has demonstrated a disdain for his predecessor's ostentatious ways. Flynn went to his first inaugural in a pair of black shoes with holes in the soles. At an an earlier transition meeting with White, Flynn illegally parked his car--a 1975 Dodge Station wagon with a hole in the floor--and received a parking ticket as he discussed taking over the city's government. In case you're wondering, he promptly paid the ticket...