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...support of Gary's white voters in the 1964 presidential primary. Openly appealing to anti-Negro voters, a third candidate, Bernard Konrady, siphoned off more than 13,000 votes that would most likely have gone to Katz-five times as many as the mayor would have needed to wipe out Hatcher's minuscule (2,462) majority...
...Hatcher were white, he would be certain of victory; the machine has made Indiana's second biggest city a Democratic fiefdom for more than 50 years. As a Negro, he must campaign on ability and personality. He has both, and already has firm plans to wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio...
...idea of academic inadequacy, he continued, has disappeared. "It is no longer agreed that when faculty venture out in the real world, someone should be along to wipe their noses," he said...
...Improve health, educational and scientific-training facilities throughout the hemisphere, with strong emphasis on programs that will wipe out contagious diseases and teach Latin Americans the basic skills required for industrial jobs...
...cover the patrol, were pounding the enemy. But the two Viet Cong companies proved to be two battalions instead, and the U.S. platoon was hard pressed when, 15 minutes after the artillery opened up, the first fighter-bombers attacked. Still convinced that he had a major chance to wipe out a U.S. unit, the enemy commander committed a full regiment to his attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. was helilifting in reinforcements. Within three hours, the Viet Cong regiment was being chewed to pieces not by a single platoon but by a full brigade of G.I.s. Final count: 581 Viet Cong dead...