Word: tates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar profile along the Thames-side skyline in London is the sooty statue of Britannia, bearing a trident, atop the Victorian baroque pile that is the Tate Gallery. Britannia grasps her trident in what heraldry says is the wrong (that is, right) hand. In the past, this maladroitness has seemed symbolic of the Tate...
...Green Jr., 53, longtime (since 1948) Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania's Fifth District, iron-fisted boss of Philadelphia's Democratic machine, who overturned 68 years of Republican rule in Philadelphia in the 1951 mayoralty election, delivered a city majority for Kennedy in 1960, helped elect Mayor James Tate this fall; of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Philadelphia...
...named Amherst's poet in residence to succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest rank of France's Legion...
Problems in Philly. In Philadelphia, Democrats were fearful that Mayor James Tate, a party plodder who inherited the office last year when Crusading Liberal Richardson Dilworth resigned to run unsuccessfully for Governor, would be in trouble with whites for his acquiescence to demands from a notably militant grouping of Negro organizations. As it turned out, Tate won-but by the thinnest edge the Democrats had sweated in twelve years of power...
Ninety-four percent of Tate's 61,000-vote margin came from the city's 17 predominantly Negro wards. But among white voters Tate did poorly, barely managed to split even with Republican James T. McDermott, a political unknown. In heavily Italian South Philadelphia, scene of some of the city's worst racial clashes over Negro integration thrusts in housing and jobs, Democrat Tate lost two of the three wards that voted hugely for Dilworth in 1959 and John Kennedy...