Word: cleveland
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...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 a second term against a strong white challenger. In Buffalo, Mayor Frank Sedita, a middle-road Democrat, staved off a black independent challenger and a law-and-order Republican...
...Cleveland police-and many lower-middle-class whites-consider Stokes to have been too energetic in behalf of blacks. Two of his civil service commissioners have been indicted on charges of favoring Negro applicants to the police department. The Fraternal Order of Police took full-page newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent...
...Carl B. Stokes-the first black mayor of a major American city-won a second term by a tiny margin in Cleveland yesterday, but a black candidate for mayor of Detroit trailed as late returns came...
Hugh D. Calkins '45. youngest member of the Harvard Corporation, appeared to be in serious trouble last night in his race for re-election to the Cleveland school board. Late counts showed Calkins placing last in the six-man race for four seats on the board...
...fans sat in the rain at Yankee Stadium yesterday to watch the New York Giants lose to the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21, when Norm Snead threw a touchdown pass to Ben Hawkins with a minute left in the game. The loss dropped New York even farther behind the Cleveland Browns, who handed the Cowboys their first loss...