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...news was worrisome. In Michigan, the voters adopted the new constitution that Republican Governor George Romney had been battling for, and the victory both brightened Romney's luster and dimmed the prospects that Kennedy will carry Michigan in 1964 as he did in 1960. In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who helped Kennedy mightily in his close squeak in 1960, won re-election by only a mediocre margin against a weak opponent...
Chicago voters last week re-elected potato-shaped Mayor Richard Daley to a third term. That in itself was hardly a surprise: Daley (TIME cover. March 15) was figured to be a sure winner from the start. But surprise the election brought, nonetheless: though the mayor chirruped about his "overwhelming victory." his margin was narrow by Chicago standards...
...demand specific retraction of TIME'S ir responsible assertion regarding Catholic motivation in the cover story on Mayor Richard J. Daley. Your line, "Daley's own Roman Catholic Church mounted campaigns against many of his projects," is substantiated only by the Hyde Park controversy...
Imperishable. Despite that record, Chicago's Mayor Daley plows indefatigably on, seeking still further improvement. He works an 18-hour day, carries pencil and paper on which he jots streams of ideas in shorthand, commands instantaneous action from his political underlings. "He keeps prodding you all the time," says one. He has thousands of friends, but few close ones. "He's like a post office clerk sorting mail," says one associate. "He keeps men in slots. In a general human sense of trusting somebody, the only person really close to him is his wife." Daley's entire...
...Daley's stubborn resolve to rebuild his city has given Chicago a new stature. At the same time, its old vitality happily continues to beat out the jazzy cacophony that gives Chicago its rowdy rhythm and its imperishable lustiness. Chicago can no more do without its bawdy peep shows or its cackling Paddy Baulers than it can do without its Fields, its Swifts-and its Dick Daleys. In its own broad-shouldered way, in its anatomy and in the art of its clout, in its indestructible zest for life, Chicago is a man among cities...