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...nuclear power, and backing the construction of a Trident submarine base?opposed by the environmentalists?on Puget Sound. She had plenty of energy, an air of bluff honesty that appealed to independents, and a new face. Startling the experts, she defeated Seattle's popular but overconfident Mayor Wes Uhlman, 42, in the primary and then beat Republican John Spellman, 50, the top official in Seattle's King County...
...workers, but the workers increasingly ignore bans in other states. Their unions staged 380 strikes last year-and only 15 in 1958. In the aftermath of the recession, the number may increase this year as impecunious cities try to restrain wages or reduce work forces. Declared Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman: "The issue is who is going to manage the cities-the mayor or the city employees...
...Carl Uhlman, 39, won election to Washington's state house of representatives while he was still in law school, served four terms before moving on to the state senate, and in 1969 became Seattle's mayor. An affable, attractive, moderately mod Democrat, he has begun refurbishing Seattle's waterfront Skid Row, started a free downtown bus system that has rejuvenated the area, and helped lead the city back from the economic doldrums of 1970. "I don't want to grow old in this job," Uhlman confesses, and with his appeal to voters and his ambition...
...troops as in ancient Troy, but with impoundments and program freezes, with lopsided funding formulas, with broken promises and cynical pretexts and with an Executive budget that will spell disaster for human services and community development in every city in the country." So Seattle's Democratic mayor, Wes Uhlman, complained last week, and it was by no means the harshest indictment, as one mayor after another poured out his budgetary woes to Senator Edmund Muskie's Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations...
...been anticipated. Despite the cutback of summer programs, money was scraped up in many cities to provide employment for black youths. In Detroit, more than 11,000 jobs were made available in city agencies at $1.60 an hour. With more than 3,000 youngsters employed, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman's youth division had the biggest payroll of any city department. Congress supplied enough money to the anti-poverty agency in Boston so that it could double the number of summer jobs for minority groups...