Word: aurelio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cliché is the hat in the ring, but last week Democrat John Lindsay tossed in his political right hand, Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio. Aurelio, the mayor announced, will leave city hall next month to explore further the prospects of a Lindsay presidential nomination. He will set up an office with a small staff and travel continually. Lindsay's decision whether to run, expected early next year, will be based largely on Aurelio's soundings...
...final decision, it was suggested amid some hilarity at Lindsay's press conference, came on a Utah mountaintop. Vacationing with his wife earlier this month, he telephoned Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio from a riding stable and, the story goes, dictated the substance of his announcement. Actually, a very similar draft of the speech had been prepared by his staff weeks earlier...
...signals from city hall remain confusing, which is probably just the way John Lindsay wants it. Deputy Mayor Dick Aurelio, who ran Lindsay's uphill re-election campaign in 1969, dropped a hint that his boss might want to abandon the Republicans and try for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. At a Queens political dinner, Aurelio said: "Those of us who believe deeply in John Lindsay have adopted the slogan: 'We'd rather switch than fight.' " A day later Tom Morgan, the mayor's press man, dutifully shot down Aurelio's trial balloon...
...black youths, allegedly gang members, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police claimed that it was a deliberate ambush by the gang. Lieut. Aurelio Garcia termed the gang "money-hungry leeches, bloodsuckers of the community." Gang members protested that they believed in nonviolence and that recent shootings in the area were incited by police as part of a campaign to destroy the gang...