Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN LINDSAY'S probable re-election as Mayor of New York City comes courtesy of the emerging technical elite, that body to whom John Kenneth Galbraith has sometimes looked for the country's general salvation. They aren't yet numerous enough to carry a two-way election-even in so...
And Lindsay's opposition is now terribly, calamitously split, with Mario Procaccino retaining hard-core Democrats and the holders of pencil-thin moustaches, and John Marchi capturing the more sensitive, the more educated and the more Republican among the Lindsay-haters. For a while it seemed Procaccino had the election...
It is easy to exaggerate Procaccino's mistakes. One the whole, his failure to parlay an early lead into an election-eve cinch was built into the works of the campaign. Procaccino's record is undistinguished and on several counts deeply vulnerable, thus muting the impact of his attacks on...
The Daily News straw poll, which has never missed a mayoralty race, seems to attest to this fact in giving Lindsay 44 per cent, Procaccino 33 per cent and Marchi 20 per cent-with a startlingly small 3 per cent undecided. Observers have occasionally faulted the News polling techniques, but...
ment to Lindsay's come-from-behind shot at re-election. In other words, the Lindsay victory could be a Pyrrhic victory, squeezing Manhattan, the poor, the rich, the social scientists and the beautiful people to the bone.