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...blacks in the ghettos. The city has had no major racial upheaval since 1964. Yet many white New Yorkers feel neglected as a result. In huge areas of The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, thousands feel that Lindsay is interested only in the black and Spanish-speaking slums. Says Democratic Councilman Robert Low, a possible candidate for Mayor in 1969: "He has concentrated his attention on slum areas and raising standards for minority groups, without making the middle class feel he offers compensating programs for them." Partially as a result, the white exodus to the suburbs goes on, and the disaffection...
Forred-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati councilman, it has been a long, long time from May to November. Last spring, heavily supported by labor unions, Gilligan unseated Ohio's moss-backed Democratic Senator Frank Lausche in a primary. But when Gil ligan, a Viet Nam dove, pointedly refused to support Humphrey before the Chicago convention, the unions slammed shut their coffers. Not until October, when their feud with Gilligan was finally papered over, did they reopen them...
Cambridge Councilman Barbara Ackermann and John D. Elder, assistant dean of the Divinity School, members of the conference, said they still believed in the efficacy of the system...
...Councilman Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh admits: "A lot of people dissatisfied with the party here really don't feel that a Democratic loss this time would be a such a bad thing. They'd regard it as a cleansing operation." Humphrey, suffering from association with the old-line bosses, and Senator Clark, himself in a tough re-election fight, both suffer from this mood...
...machine in Providence and the conservative organization at a state level. With Brown student Leonard O'Brien, chairman of Rhode Island Students for Kennedy, challenging a Doorley candidate in Providence this fall, the liberal move has begun. Leaders of the Coalition are state Sen. Mrs. Eleanor Slater and Newport councilman David Fenton. Sen. John O. Pastore can be expected to aid the old guard if the challenge becomes serious...