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...provision for 14 elections on a ward basis was similarly designed to insure that some white councilmen would be elected. In a city nearly 60 per cent Negro, it was feared, at large elections would produce an all-Negro council...
...WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. Because his novels reflected so clearly the injustices of Soviet dictatorship, Author Tarsis was unjustly committed to a mental asylum. In this bitter novel he outlines the misery of his fellow inmates...
...could almost have been invented by a campaign manager. Born in London, in the course of his poor Jewish parents' emigration from Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City of New York and plunged into Brooklyn ward politics, his entree to a 20-year city hall career. A canny, candid financial expert, Beame spoke with authority in condemning longtime Boss Bob Wagner's feckless financing practices, thus shrewdly disassociated himself from the tired Democratic regime of which he was a part...
...given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
Schweitzer clearly intended Lambarene to be his monument, and just before he died happily supervised the completion of a new ward. But soon after his burial, Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Eckert, as much as admitted that the hospital might have a hard time surviving. "We will try to carry on his work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried...