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After taking office as the first Negro mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl Stokes disappointed even his most loyal supporters. His first five months produced little but petty errors, squabbles and a deepening frustration that so vibrant a campaigner could be so dull an incumbent. Then...
Four days spent in cooling the slums gave Stokes time to polish some ideas. Then he began to act. Farmers were killing pigs to dramatize their desire for higher prices; Stokes got them to donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free...
In retrospect, the first big hint of Lausche's political life expectancy came last year when the Governor's protégé, Cleveland's mayor, Ralph Locher, was turned out by Carl Stokes, first Negro to assume command of a major American city. As Lausche'...
Captain Cleveland is aimed at children from three to ten, and the Private Clem and Mr. Mayor colloquies are designed to interest the kids in government and, by implication, good race relations. Clem's questions run from "Do you own the city?" to "Is the policeman my friend?" At...
It is all done ad lib, but Stokes proved so deft and engaging in his first taping session that the segments will now be expanded from three to five minutes and go into rerun throughout the week. "He's so good it's unbelievable," says WKBF General Manager...