Word: northern
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Against Backlash & Bigotry. Cleveland was not alone in making last week's voting a historic off-year election. Gary, Ind., a northern bastion of the Ku Klux Klan 40 years ago, also elected a Negro, Richard Hatcher, 34, as its mayor. As in Cleveland, white votes supplied the crucial margin. In Boston, a coalition of white and Negro voters chose moderate Mayoral Candidate Kevin Hagan White over Louise Day Hicks, who had become a totem of opposition to school integration...
...article "Thistles in the New Towns" [Sept. 29j, you described the recent changes at Reston in northern Virginia and stated that "Simon recalls that 'Reston never recovered' after the collapse of an oral deal with the Washington Gas Light Company to supply $6,000,000 at a low interest rate." Although we worked with Mr. Simon and his associates for quite some time in exploring ways that we might be helpful in connection with getting Reston started, there was no "oral deal" involved at any state of our relationship. We are just as sure of this...
...coaching the teams. Dick Friedman, Harvard freshman coach for the past four years, took over the Varsity when coach Charlie Gibson left last spring. Cliffies have lined up Chuck Lobitz to work with them. He comes to Radcliffe after two years of coaching at the Holderness School in northern New Hampshire...
...Orleans belongs to no one. It is not really a Southern town, though a civil rights activist may well expect to wake up some night to the sound of a bomb tearing up his home. I is not a Northern town, though hippies in purple cloaks may cluster around the statue of Andrew Jackson in the middle of busy Jackson Square. Though that statue bears an inscription which reads, "The Union must be preserved"--an inscription which has to strike a Southern ear with painful irony--it is not a Northern town. It is not an All-American town, though...
...Liberal Party candidate for city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into...