Word: statehood
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...myself, my family and my home." To rekindle idealism, many collectives now require young people to serve for a year on a newly established kibbutz. For this reason, and because kibbutzniks performed so heroically in the Six-Day War, the movement is regaining the prestige that it lost when statehood came, and Israelis are seeing the communes as symbols of self-sacrifice...
Hickel finished high school with "something below a C average," won a Golden Gloves championship, and left to seek his fortune. Penniless but self-confident, he arrived in Alaska in 1940. By 1953 he was a respected businessman (real estate and construction) and a leading proponent of Alaskan statehood. Though politics at first did not appeal to him ("I never was much of a joiner"), a California Republican named Richard Nixon did. Hickel worked for Nixon during the 1960 campaign and before the one in 1964. Taking time off from the national scene, he surprised everyone but himself...
THAT bitter justification for demanding that New York City seek statehood carries the contemporary flavor of Mayor John Lindsay's continuing crusade for municipal independence. Yet it was offered more than a century ago by a Lindsay predecessor, Mayor Fernando Wood, in 1861. More recent mayors, including Jimmy Walker and Robert Wagner, have sought similar escape from the political shackles imposed by a state that the city dominates in almost every other way. In 1959 the New York City council approved creation of a committee to study secession, and a bill calling for a referendum on the establishing...
...schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
...certain how statehood could be achieved. New York City's impetuous Congresswoman Bella Abzug has opened a drive to ask the city's voters in November to approve a resolution petitioning Congress to admit the city to the Union as a state. The New York legislature would also have to give its approval, a most improbable happening since the state would lose roughly half of its annual revenue. On the other hand, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton contends that the rest of the state would say "good riddance" to the city and its troubles. Sutton suggests that...