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Flashing his brightest smile, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes shouted to the Negro youths in the Hough ghetto: "Who's gonna be the next President of the United States?"
> By August, Democratic and Republican leaders decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue...
Carl B. Stokes, LL.D., mayor of Cleveland.
Even where money is available, cities are finding it increasingly difficult to acquire the right land for new airports. Everyone wants a convenient field in some other part of town where the noise, fumes and potential hazards will not be personally obnoxious. In Washington, even the poverty marchers of Resurrection...
In an optimistic "State of the City" speech last week, Mayor Stokes reported that 2,000 junked cars have been removed from the streets, and that 28,000 street lights are being bought. A recent health levy will generate an additional $320 million in federal, state and local funds over...