Word: morrison
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Elected mayor of New Orleans in 1946, deLesseps Story Morrison took one good look at that provocative grande dame among U.S. cities and made a worried diagnosis: the old lady was dangerously ill with municipal thrombosis, high blood pressure and cancer. Morrison set out to cure all three and rejuvenate her as well. Last week, celebrating his eleventh anniversary as mayor by dedicating an eleven-story, $8,000,000, glass-and-class city hall, "Chep" Morrison, 45, proudly and properly declared his girl well out of danger and enjoying a new uplift from skyline to dockside...
...thrombosis," Morrison explains, "was the traffic strangulation caused by five separate railroad stations, 144 grade crossings, the five-mile-long New Basin Canal with its lift bridges. Hypertension was the pressure on the downtown nerve center because of a lack of parking space and too great a concentration of people in a few buildings. The third of the municipal ailments was the slum cancer...
...Dose. Looking around for assistants to help him in the cure, Morrison found most New Orleans businessmen painfully aware of the illness, anxious to help, and even ready to accept the cost in time and taxes of the medicines he prescribed. The New Orleans antidote...
...Force told some 200 South Uist crofters that they would be evicted to make room for a rocket-testing range. With their thatched cottages and small, thin-soiled farms in danger, the South Uist crofters-80% Catholics, the rest Church of Scotland Protestants-marshaled behind one leader: Father John Morrison, a local crofter...
Normally a tranquil man who loves shooting and fishing (he advises cardinal flies dosed with Vat 69), Father Morrison fired off an appeal to the newspapers: "S.O.S., S.O.S. to all Scotsmen . . . Let us prove that Scotsmen can fight for their precious heritage." To 1,000 crofters of both faiths at a mass meeting. Father Morrison stated the case: importing "9,000 aliens" (4,000 soldiers and their families) would wreak havoc with the livestock, tweed, seaweed and egg-packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition...