Word: stills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another that they are often lumped together in one catchall phrase: "the problem of the cities." Politically, however, the cities make up a complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated last week. In general, the cities' voters remained loyal to incumbents, and still more so to the Democratic Party. But there were strong crosscurrents of change in some big cities. Most notable: the sudden rise to prominence of new voting blocs in Houston, Miami and San Francisco, and the equally sudden demise of the tough-guy mayoral style in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minneapolis...
...assure their neighbors that the outcome meant, in Ferre's words, "no Latin takeover." Armando Lacasa, who campaigned successfully for election to the city commission with Spanish-language posters urging PROTECT OUR OWN, nonetheless proclaimed that the commission must offer "a piece of the action to everybody." Still, the election testified to the growing strength of "little Havana," Miami's huge community of Cuban exiles. Hispanics make up 55% of Miami's population and only 31% of the registered voters, but they trooped to the polls in impressive numbers. Miami's non-Hispanics, like most other...
...forgiveness for an action he had taken when he served as Governor from 1967 to 1971 - raising the sales tax from 3? on the dollar to 5?. Not even carpeting the state with new roads or running a competent, scandal-free administration could placate those voters who still called the tax "Nunn's nickel...
Kennedy was accompanied by some notable Democratic officeholders: Maine Governor Joseph Brennan, New Hampshire Senator John Durkin, Massachusetts Lieut. Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III, and the biggest catch of all, Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne. Still smarting from heavy-handed pressure to endorse the President, Byrne railed at Carter in a way that made Kennedy's gibes seem mild by comparison. "Statements and threats have been delivered by Carter and his people," she charged. "I do not want to support a candidate because of blackmail and intimidation." Asked if she would meet Carter when he goes to Chicago...
...hair, Beards or drooping mustaches. Some of their leaders try to project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions of members...