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* From left: Cleaveland's Carl Stokes, Chicago's Richard Daley, New York's John Lindsay, Nixon, Urban Affairs' Pat Moynihan, Syracuse's William Walsh, Boston's Kevin White, and Office of Economice Opportunity Director Donald Rumsfeld.
In 1966, Martin Luther King said: "I don't think that anything can be more tragic in the civil rights movement than the attitude that the black man can solve his problems by himself." Indeed, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes and Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher could...
Russel Morrison, the 37-year-old president of Standard & Poor's-a company that specializes in financial reporting-decided that the best way to improve profits of the S. & P. counseling oper-'ation was to spin it off as a separate firm under bolder management. He turned to...
Stokes, 41, who had been boosted by Cleveland's press and industry, last May persuaded the private sector to ante up $10 million, primarily for housing and unemployment programs. That seed money for a much-touted "Cleveland: NOW!" effort has already sprouted more than $100 million in massive aid...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the...