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...biggest feature in this week's TIME is our cover story and eight color pages on Mayor Daley's Chicago. It is a good example of how our kind of journalism works. Sometimes we hear outsiders talk as if one of our correspondents simply sends in a story, as a newspaperman would, which some anonymous They in our New York headquarters touches up. changes and distorts to his prejudices and tastes. That isn't how we work at all. The Daley story illustrates just how we do go about...
Buddha moves-but only to rub his fingers back and forth across the edge of his desk. That desk, clean of papers, may be the most important place in Chicago. For it is the desk of Mayor Richard Joseph Daley, 60. In Chicago, Daley is boss. Few others understand so well what the city is all about: its labyrinths of power, the pulsators of its machinery, the structure of its institutions, the yearnings of its people. Chicago's motto, I WILL, is Daley's personal and political charter. Buddha though he is, he gets things done. Says...
Making things happen is Daley's passion. "We"-meaning I-"are going to rebuild this city." he says, and he has gone a fair way during his eight years as mayor. Under Daley, Chicago has a new rhythm as exciting as any in the city's lusty past. A new façade is rising in steel and zeal. New buildings loom high against the slate-grey winter waters of Lake Michigan. Bulldozers cut great swaths through slums; in their wake thousands of new dwellings are being planted. New classrooms keep pace with the growing school population...
Reward. Why should anyone want to kill such a kindly fellow? At week's end, Chicago had no idea. Mayor Richard Daley offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Lewis' murderer. Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson, former dean of the School of Criminology at the University of California, vowed "to apprehend and bring before the bar of justice the culprit who committed this dastardly crime. I'm surprised that a killing of this sort would be effected against...
Seeking reassurance, Kerner obtained qualified support from Daley, and last week was able to announce that Shriver "wrote me a letter-and I still have it-in which he indicated that he will not be a candidate." Shriver had indeed written to Kerner, but was careful to say he would support the Governor "if" he were a candidate for reelection. With Daley and Shriver both hedging, Kerner was hardly secure...