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Sir: At a time when the Negro is extremely suspicious of all praise given him or to one of his peers, and overly sensitive that behind the "sugary" praise there lurks hidden meaning, let me congratulate you on your article [Nov. 17] about the newly elected mayors, Carl Burton Stokes...
Sir: The Stokes victory clearly proves that it was the individual, not the name. His zest and vigor, coupled with his platform for office, won him many friendly votes.
Sir: The minority group pulled a nifty trick in Cleveland. First it urged all voters to consider the Man rather than his Race. Then it went to the polls and voted 99% for Carl B. Stokes.
Like the fund-raising inaugural ball scheduled for next week, the helmet directive was more gesture than substance, but it was the kind of gesture that had been sadly missing around city hall. A more pragmatic innovation is Stokes's plan to fully integrate police precinct squads regardless of...
If Stokes lives up to his potential, he will be in demand for higher office long before 1977. Cleveland, in the interim, will be his testing ground. "It hasn't been an exciting town," says Tom Vail, "but it's about to become one. There's an...