Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does anything until you have some trouble like this...
...Evers as a man of his word, and Natchez whites seemed to take Jackson's murder more seriously than similar incidents in the past-most notably, the still-unsolved slaying of two young Negroes whose dismembered bodies were dredged from the Mississippi River in 1964. The board of aldermen put up a $25,000 reward for the killers, and Armstrong, which has so far pleaded inability to keep Klansmen off its payroll, chipped in another $10,000. Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson called the bombing an "act of savagery which stains the honor of our state...
...cool and wise in his judgment, warm in his heart." He met with Britain's top capitalists at the Hyde Park Hotel, mingled with the likes of Mod Designer Mary Quant, Actress Mary Ure and the dip set at Lancaster House, and addressed scarlet robed sheriffs and aldermen, ecclesiastics and industrialists at the Guildhall. Ahead in Fashion. Kosygin dined on pheasant laid out on Sèvres china at dinner for 56 in Buckingham Palace, where everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, came in informal clothes in deference to the Soviet Premier's liking for the common touch. Kosygin addressed...
...ALABAMA. Five of the state's eight U.S. Representatives are Republicans, all elected in 1964. In all, 105 Republicans now hold elective public offices in Alabama, not counting mayors or aldermen, who run mostly in nonpartisan municipal elections. So confident is the state's G.O.P. organization that it plans to field candidates next year not only for the U.S. Senate seat held since 1946 by Democrat John Sparkman, but also for every major state office as well...
...MISSISSIPPI. In a state where Republican used to be a dirty word, the G.O.P. has elected a U.S. Representative, a state senator, two state representatives, four county attorneys, three mayors and six aldermen. Democratic Governor Paul Johnson glumly admits that the G.O.P. is likely to win even more offices next year...