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...liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
...front of City Hall, 2,000 picketing policemen yelled "Blue power!" and carried signs exhorting "Dump Lindsay" and "We Want Daley." Hundreds more paraded in front of 20 of the city's 79 precinct stations. Until their union ended the practice at week's end, as many as 3,000 men, one-fifth of the force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly...
Similar matters of pride were at stake in the police and firemen's dispute. The police turned down an exceedingly generous contract-which, despite their cries for Daley, would give them a base pay level of $10,750 a year, considerably more than the Chicago cops, and a 14.6% boost over two years-not because it was too little, but because the firemen would be getting as much. The policemen protested that they should receive more because of the greater hazards of the job. Renewing an old status rivalry, the firemen declared that they would accept not a penny...
...editorializing in melodramatic imagery, the artist is apt to employ the more oblique weapons of abstract parody and wit. His sentiments are no less angry on that account-as could be seen last week in Chicago. At the Feigen Gallery, 47 artists displayed acid valentines to Mayor Richard J. Daley, 21 of them composed especially for the show...
...angry men were responsible for the exhibit: Chicago Art Dealer Richard Feigen, a Democrat who found himself shoved into the aisle during the convention by Daley's sanitation workers, and Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who was visiting the city at the time and, as he recounts it, got "tossed to the ground by six swearing troopers who kicked me and choked me and called me a Communist." In such a context, Oldenburg told Feigen, "a gentle one-man show about pleasure" that he had originally promised the gallery for November seemed "a bit obscene." Still, he was willing to help...