Word: snipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these big, often balky cities, with their honking traffic problems, endless building and demolition, civic scandals and sinister crimes is one that would tax and unnerve a Caesar. The proper mayor of the modern U.S. city is not merely a civil servant, a political boss and a ceremonial ribbon snipper; nowadays he must be a skilled sociologist, a knowledgeable planner, a first sergeant, a public relations expert and a television performer. For better or worse, he is the image of his city-and, to a remarkable degree, His Honor usually mirrors his city's personality...
...functions, and in this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...