Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moon Landrieu, 49, mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to '78, and now a real estate executive, to replace Patricia Harris, the newly nominated Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, in her previous post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
Hardly had Moon Landrieu taken office as a 29-year-old Louisiana state legislator in 1960 when segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis called a special session to resist federal integration orders. The vote in favor of ramming through the segregation package was 93 to 1. The dissenter: Moon Landrieu. Colleagues told him that his political career was ruined; his family was showered with death threats. "I certainly wasn't a Sir Lancelot," Landrieu now insists. "I was miserable because I couldn't figure out a way to evade or finesse the issue...
...forceful style and short temper provoked controversy, as did the projects that he backed. One was the renovation of the historic French Market and the construction of a riverside mall, inevitably nicknamed the Moon Walk. He was also a staunch advocate of the controversial $163 million Louisiana Superdome. Argued Moon: "They called King Ludwig of Bavaria mad for building all those elaborate castles. But now thousands of tourists come to see the castles. So Bavaria's rich, and old Ludwig's a hero again...
...grocery store. Once again, he has been doing a little door-to-door campaigning. This time it is for his daughter Mary, at 23 the oldest of his nine children (all of their names begin with the letter M; his own name was Maurice before he changed it to Moon). She is running for her father's old seat in the state legislature...
...coalesce around ideas, not leaders: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the fitness movement, for example. Those who participate seem to be too independent, too critical, too wary of the dangers of leadership to entrust themselves to others. The cautionary examples of cults?the followers of Sun Myung Moon or Jim Jones?merely confirm the wary in their independence...