Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankee Stadium that exhausted the city's patience. In an angry statement. Commissioner Codd told his 26,000-man force that any policeman unwilling to accept the responsibility of his job should "retire or get out." Codd promised to bring departmental charges against the offenders and the precinct captains who had allowed the disorders to occur...
...after roving gangs of young toughs with names like the Black Killers, the Errol Flynns, the Sheridan Strips and the Bishops virtually took over the streets of the city's scrubby east side. Perhaps as many as 500 of the gang members are concentrated in the impoverished Fifth Precinct, a 6-sq.-mi. moonscape of abandoned storefronts, crumbling homes and schools, littered streets and sidewalks. Once a quiet white community, the precinct is nearly all black, its various sections divided into territories controlled by one or another of the gangs...
...disappeared in a plane over Alaska. Though she was born on a plantation and has something of the manner of a Southern belle, Lindy Boggs is an astute politician. She has been elected twice to the House by overwhelming majorities. She began her political career as a Democratic precinct captain in 1938, managed her husband's campaigns and will be attending her seventh convention. Boggs is breaking the sex barrier as permanent chairman. Says she: "I have great training and physical stamina to be a chairperson. I have the strong feet, strong back and strong stomach of most political...
...nomination moves toward what looks like a close and brawling finish, Reagan's superior organization shows, especially in the remaining Western convention states that still are electing delegates. For months Reagan's men burrowed into the bedrock, taking control of the local parties at the ward and precinct levels. While Ford built his state organization from the top down, Reagan built from the bottom...
...Montana, where Reagan won the nonbinding primary, 65% to 35%, State Chairwoman Florence Haegen called for a proportional split of the delegates. But Reagan forces are fighting for a 20-to-0 shutdown at this weekend's convention. In Washington State, when the Reagan team narrowly won some precinct caucuses, they insisted on shutting out the Ford minority, sending only Reagan loyalists to the higher-level county sessions. In precincts that Ford carried, the losers argued that their own long service to the G.O.P. entitled them to some representation at the county conventions. Moans Fred Baker: "We let them...