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Creeping Thing. McGovern workers in Chicago were confident, despite adverse polls, that their man had a fighting chance now that they had Mayor Richard Daley on their side, lock, stock and poll watchers. They prided themselves on their realism, a fact verified by a Daleyite who was prepared to hate the kids until one showed up "so full of vim and vigor and so willing to listen to my advice that I guess I softened." As Columnist Mike Royko mused, Daley, after his humiliation at the Democratic Convention, "has to enjoy seeing all those admiring liberal faces looking...
Died. Orlando Wilson, 72, criminologist and former Chicago police chief; of a stroke; in Poway, Calif. Wilson was dean of criminology at Berkeley when Mayor Richard Daley drafted him to reform a police department charged with corruption and inefficiency. Wilson created a special 200-man squad to crack down on police malfeasance, increased street patrols, reduced paper work and otherwise upgraded the force before retiring...
...Chicago the affair is on the rocks. Determined to persuade the city to put a second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
Allotment. All this does not necessarily mean that the Democrats were wrong to open up their party to the long under-represented voices of such broad groups as women, the young, and blacks. But it might have been done in better ways. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's 59 delegates who were excluded at Miami Beach were, after all, elected. Those Democratic voters who chose them were disenfranchised, however the McGovernites might feel about Daley. In opening some doors, the Democrats slammed some shut unfairly, and posed anew the question of the function of parties...
...Chicago, one of the few successful white working-class insurgent efforts against the Daley machine has been led by a segregationist priest, Father Lawlor. Newark, where a black mayor was elected in 1969, has seen almost no interaction between Italians and blacks. New York's formerly liberal Jewish candidates are now emphasizing their opposition to housing projects and school busing. And many people in the Irish and Italian sections of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, have left the Democratic Party to join the Conservative Party...