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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probable re-election as Mayor of New York City comes courtesy of the emerging technical elite, that body to whom John Kenneth Galbraith has sometimes looked for the country's general salvation. They aren't yet numerous enough to carry a two-way election-even in so managerial a town as New York-but against split opposition they could well turn the trick...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

WHATEVER his mistakes, Marchi will do well on November 4th-when you consider that he is a conservative Republican running in an overwhelmingly Democratic, and usually liberal, town. He has nearly all Procaccino's positive points except the party label. He has a certain impressive quality all his own. But the polls suggest Marchi cannot avoid the role of spoiler, however much he might like to. Every vote he acquires is a vote acquired from Procaccino, and only brings the necessary Lindsay total down that much further...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...mayor for a back-model Chevrolet? John Lindsay's national reputation alone would be a formidable asset in any other city. Add his good looks and an opposition party torn to ribbons, and it seems fair to venture Lindsay could win a walloping victory at the polls of any town north of the Mason-Dixon Line-and a few to the south as well...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...team built right along the lines of your basic Greek tragic hero. Everything has gone wrong, not to mention the fact that the Bruins have lost four games in five attempts. Despite outplaying Colgate, they lost, 20-6. But Princeton. N. J., a suburb of Trenton, is a town without pity in the Gene Pitney tradition. And that's where today's game is being played, or forfeited. or whatever. It wouldn't be so bad for Brown were it not for Princeton's recent improvement. Both the offense and defense have clicked. Scott MacBean is encountering greatness. Jake McCandless...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

...passenger told several girls that he would stage similar subway happenings in his home town of San Francisco. A graduate student in electrical engineering at M.I.T. continued on the train past his own stop, insisting that he be informed of the next event. Several phone numbers were received from other travelers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Happening' Hits Subway: Students Turn Riders On | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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