Its Municipal Building, named for 1970s Mayor Jean Walling, is located southwest of New York's Times Square and northeast of Center City, Philadelphia.

Since becoming a city in 1960, the political power was balanced until the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Republicans led by Mayor Anthony DePaola dominated until 1983 when Democrat John Jaworski was elected mayor.

From 1972 to 1986, the centrist party with which COPE competed was The Electors ' Action Movement, which governed the city under prominent federal Liberal Mayor Art Phillips in the mid 1970s.

In the 1970s, Blum supported then Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone.

The liberal leaders of the 1960s, characteristic of the era of the Great Society and the civil rights movement, gave way to conservative urban politicians in the 1970s across the country, such as New York Mayor Ed Koch, a conservative Democrat.

In the late 1970s the then Mayor of Retford and Chairman of Bassetlaw District Council, Gerry McNeill, hosted a visit from Princess Margaret to Retford.

From 1966 until the early 1970s, SIGNAL organized thousands of citizens and elected officials ( including Planning Commissioner Eleanor Guggenheimer, Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, Mayor John V. Lindsay, and U. S. Senator Jacob Javits ) to participate in annual winter walks through the highland forests, tracing the route of the proposed ( and already mapped ) highway route.

He played the character of Charley in the 1966 dramatization of Death of a Salesman, and constantly acted throughout the 1970s as Elton Dykstra on The Intruders, Ernest W. Stanley on The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mayor Chrisholm alongside Don Knotts in the 1971 film How to Frame a Figg, and Mayor Massey on The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton.

* Douglas Campbell has run as a fringe candidate for federal parliament in the 1960s, the leadership of both the Ontario and federal New Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s, and Mayor of North York, Ontario.

The pool in Point Mallard Park was developed in the early 1970s after Mayor Gilmer Blackburn saw enclosed " wave-making " swimming pools in Germany and thought one could be a tourist attraction in the United States.

* late 1970s – Thomas Bliley, after being Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and before election to U. S. House of Representatives

He was opposed by the city's right-wing Independent Citizens ' Election Committee during the 1970s, and frequently clashed with ICEC leader and Deputy Mayor Bernie Wolfe.

In the 1970s he joined the Alliance and in 1977 he was first elected to Carrickfergus council and has remained a member ever since, serving as Mayor in 1993-1994.

Eberling also positioned himself as an aide to Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk in the early 1970s through his friendship with the Mayor's wife Lucille.

In the 1970s, regulars from the pub, the Noel Arms wrote to the then Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac proposing the link and with a tight deadline for a response.

When he became Mayor of Baghdad in early 1970s, he was more preoccupied by " morality " and " righteous behaviour " than other duties as a Baghdad Mayor.

In the early 1970s he was a City Councilman and Mayor of San Anselmo, California, and authored the first law restricting public smoking in the United States.

Betsy Gotbaum became involved in civic affairs in the 1970s, while serving on the staff of former Mayor John Lindsay as District Manager for the Chelsea-Clinton ( Manhattan West ) Neighborhood, Assistant for Women's Issues, and Assistant for Education.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

Elvis Presley was a fan of Hee Haw and wanted to appear as a guest on the program in the 1970s, but his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, would not allow him to do so.

Louis Wright, Steve Foley, and Tom Jackson, the last remnants of Denver's Orange Crush Defense of the 1970s, all retired after this Super Bowl.

Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term Me decade in his article " The " Me " Decade and the Third Great Awakening ", published by New York magazine in August 1976 referring to the 1970s.

The documentary video " the YX factor " chronicles the transition from mining to skiing and the influx of " hippies " in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the words of local residents and commentators such as Peter Yarrow and Tom Hayden.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

The strip has also had a number of ghost artists through its lifetime, including Gordon Bell in the early 1970s, John Sherwood later on in the 1970s, Keith Reynolds in the 1980s and Tom Paterson in the early 1990s.

: In the early 1970s the satirical magazine Private Eye had a crossword set by the Labour MP Tom Driberg, under the pseudonym of " Tiresias " ( supposedly " a distinguished academic churchman ").

During the 1970s, the Bulls were known as a tough, defensive-minded team, built around hard-nosed defender Jerry Sloan, forwards Bob Love and Chet Walker, point guard Norm Van Lier, and centers Clifford Ray and Tom Boerwinkle.

Regular subplots since the 1980s included: Howard and Marina trying to have an affair without Howard's wife finding out ( a variation of the Wainwright-Partridge subplot of the 1970s ), the older women meeting for tea and discussing their theories about men and life, Auntie Wainwright trying to sell unwanted merchandise to unsuspecting customers, Smiler trying to find a woman, Barry trying to better himself ( at the insistence of Glenda ), and Tom trying to stay one step ahead of the repo man.

Tom Coughlin, coach of the NFL's 2008 and 2012 Super Bowl champion New York Giants, taught physical education and coached the RIT Men's Varsity Football team in the 1970s.

A few of the early titles of the Tom Swift Jr. series were re-released in the 1970s in paperback with new illustrations.

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

Retired LAPD Detective, Tom Lang, later talked about becoming Holmes ' undercover contact and handler while Lang was working as a vice squad officer during the 1970s and explained in the 1998 documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes about working with Holmes and how Holmes would contact him with information about the underground porn industry as well as give him the names of various actors, actresses, directors and the financiers of the porn films and when they would be filmed.

In the 1970s, David Bowie began singing Brel's " Amsterdam " at a BBC session with John Peel and Evilan Tom ( not released until 2000 on Bowie at the Beeb ).

* Hoxton Tom McCourt, influential in the late 1970s and early 1980s mod and oi / punk scenes and founder of the band, the 4-Skins born in Shoreditch in 1961.

This was not Filmation's last dalliance with classic cartoon characters ; in the late 1970s the company produced new series based on the characters from the Terrytoons archive ( Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle ) and a new Tom and Jerry series as well.

* Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer for 1970s art punk group Television, attended St. Andrew's School

In 1970, Welch teamed up with Tom Jones and producer / choreographer David Winters of Winters-Rosen Productions for the TV special Raquel !, considered by some viewers to be a classic pairing together of 1970s pop-culture icons in their prime.

* Tom Shipley, musician in the 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley

* Actor Tom Hanks had an apartment in Hell's Kitchen in the late 1970s / early 80s.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.