Word: cuomo
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Sometimes the shoe pinches the other foot. New York Governor Mario Cuomo was almost an hour late for a lunch with TIME's editors because his car was caught in Manhattan traffic. His aides could do little other than telephone from the vehicle. Car phones are especially popular in Los Angeles, where many of TIME's ad-sales executives have installed them. Says Los Angeles Division Manager Steve Seabolt: "When you call and say, 'I'm on the freeway,' people know just what you mean...
...terms of style, last month's carefully choreographed Democratic Convention borrowed a leaf from the Republicans. But the even more strictly scripted Republican gathering borrowed the very themes of the Democrats. Speaker after speaker invoked the "F" word from Mario Cuomo's 1984 Democratic keynote speech: family. Change, the mantra of Atlanta, was intoned just as frequently in New Orleans: Ronald Reagan used it 14 times in his farewell speech. Even compassion found its way into the Superdome, with George Bush talking about a "kinder and gentler nation...
While Sand gave the four holdouts until Aug. 10 to reverse their negative votes or face jail terms, Yonkers appealed the contempt finding to higher courts. Invited by the judge to remove the rebellious officials, New York Governor Mario Cuomo instead deferred to the state's Emergency Financial Control Board, an agency that oversees Yonkers' shaky finances. Cuomo further muddied the waters by observing that Yonkers officials might be able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration...
July 1988: outside her home in Albany, just three blocks from Governor Mario Cuomo's mansion, Child-Care Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an anonymous tip in 1987 that Eytina was the fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned...
Power has its pushy privileges. Mario Cuomo, who is even more imperious in public than in private, strode into the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where Dukakis and his staff were in residence. The lobby, ground zero for mover-and-shaker watching, was as jammed as a Bloomingdale's white sale, and the elevators were as slow as a Bill Clinton nominating speech. New York's Governor stood impatiently in a crowd waiting for an elevator. When the doors opened, loyal functionaries cleared a path and commandeered the car -- a singular act in this city of practiced charm and charming impracticality...