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...Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), a three-term veteran, bucked a statewide Democratic tide by easily defeating former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Javits's margin, however, was considerably smaller than in his victory six years ago over now New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer...
...most of the 40 patients who have been fitted with the device have had no problems at all. Robert O'Dwyer, 41, a Detroit mechanical engineer, went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...
WHEN NEW YORK City had its election in November, the Democratic candidates--Harrison J. Goldin, Paul O'Dwyer, and Abraham D. Beame--swept the three citywide positions, controller, city council president, and mayor. In some ways, it was an interesting ticket. Harrison J. Goldin had first run for controller four years before. "Vote for Harrison J. Goldin," his shopping bags in 1969 recommended. "He's a young dynamo." Goldin did not use this slogan in 1973. Maybe he thought his performance in '69 showed that voters don't like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe...
...Dwyer is another old dynamo, a civil-rights and peace activist from way back who'd been losing elections regularly for 20 years before November. O'Dwyer has not run into major scandal yet, but Beame started running into problems right away...
...comptroller's office to back it up, his pitch was hard to get excited about or refute. Conservatives found him inoffensive, and liberals who disliked his interpertation of the New Deal voted for Blumenthal, or went for Beame, perhaps calculating that if he died in office Paul O'Dwyer, a liberal hero, the new President of the City Council, would get the job. Since the election, Beame has lived up to his image. His statements have been cautions and non-committal ("he'll never give you an answer the first time around," remarked an aide), and the five...