Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes in winning...
...YORK CITY...
...American politician disgruntled with the U.S. They are Nelson Rockefeller's-and they lie at the core of a report that may well shape Washington's Latin America policy for years to come. The report was the product of a 20-nation journey made by the New York Governor last summer to help the new Nixon Administration reassess and reinvigorate a shaky Latin American policy. Rockefeller's survey trip was beset by anti-American demonstrations and violence. Indeed, some Latin Americans complained that the effort was at best ill-timed, at worst altogether useless...
...adequately or justly of London," wrote Henry James in 1881. "It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent." Were he alive today, James, a connoisseur of cities, might easily say the same thing about New York or Paris or Tokyo, for the great city is one of the paradoxes of history. In countless different ways, it has almost always been an unpleasant, disagreeable, cheerless, uneasy and reproachful place; in the end, it can only be described as magnificent...
...jams. Sanitation was so bad in the Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful life is in nerve-jangling New York City, which resembles a mismanaged ant heap rather than a community fit for human habitation...