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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ranging Search. To lead his reorganized administration, Lindsay has enlisted a team of what he calls "great urbanists" as his aides. He has largely ignored the tradition -honored even by Reformer La Guardia -of divvying most of the spoils among local politicos, has ranged the nation in search of talented men. Despite complaints from the press about his free hand, he pays them salaries that go above $30,000, an incentive to talent that few big cities offer. Among those who have answered Lindsay's call: » Mitchell Sviridoff, 47, who made New Haven's antipoverty program famous...
...other circumstances, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato might well feel a sense of panic. There is great pressure on him to call general elections next month-at a time when his own party is beclouded in "black mists" of scandal and split by factional rivalries. But Sato seems unworried. The reason is that the main opposition party is in even worse shape than his Liberal Democrats...
...showdown, the vote split along predictable factional lines: 313 for Hard-liner Sasaki v. 274 for Eda and his vision. It was a guarantee that if Premier Sato does call a general election next month, the major opposition will not only still be out of touch with modern Japan, but will also be even more badly divided than his own scandal-tainted Liberal Democrats...
...Mayor John F. Collins indicated that he would not seek re-election in 1967. Since then, city councilors, school committee members, state representatives and other ambitious but minor Boston politicians have been thinking about running for Collins' job. Local political observers are watching closely to see which contenders actually call Howard Fitzpatrick, or his competitor, Stanley Blinstrub, about arranging a fund-raising dinner...
...Three, Irma La Douce, and Kiss Me, Stupid--the man's last three pictures--were characterized not so much by cynicism as by excess. In all things. Kiss Me, Stupid, unquestionably Wilder's worst, was so overplayed, overwritten and overdirected that it seemed fair to call it his Armageddon. But with the benefit of hindsight, one can see that beneath the roughage Wilder has been brewing a new style of comedy. And the brew has come to boil with The Fortune Cookie...