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...Gibson himself mentions race only defensively, protesting his opponent's scare tactics; needing white votes, he emphasizes instead the city's sagging "quality of life" and refers to Addonizio's indictment often enough to keep the issue alive and damaging. His two principal aides, one an editor of a research service, the other a 21-year-old Princeton University senior, are white. Half his estimated $100,000 campaign fund comes from Newark's white business establishment, and so does the rented air-conditioned Lincoln Continental in which he campaigns. The business community's support...
...being liberal on racial matters. In this election he has decorated the city with bland "Peace and Progress" posters, but in his speeches he has turned more and more to race. Relaxed and genial as always in private conversation, he commutes from his trial to tell campaign audiences that Gibson is "part of a raw and violent conspiracy to turn this city over to LeRoi Jones and his extremist followers." Black Militant Jones, whose violence-filled plays and poems frighten many whites, is a childhood friend of Gibson's, was an early political supporter and still remains a political...
...house. If we get a black mayor, it isn't worth a quarter." Addonizio's trial? "Everyone's corrupt in a job like that," says the policeman's wife. On the other side, Housewife Jennie Smith says: "I'm voting for Gibson because he's black and we've got to support our own." Factory Worker James Simpson puts the same idea more succinctly: "He's a brother...
...other main issue is, as Gibson says, the quality of life in Newark, and it is a serious question whether any mayor can help. The city's establishment, in its own campaign to shore up an image, stresses the construction of public and private housing, office buildings and educational facilities. But the overwhelming fact of Newark's life, as of so many cities, is the accelerating downward slide. One of three houses is substandard. More than 15% of the population receive some sort of public assistance. Crime rates are among the nation's highest. Burned...
...hottest thing to hit the clubhouse since "greenies," the pep pills that Bouton says are used by half the players to perk up their game. Several big-leaguers needed more than greenies to keep from turning red when asked about the book. St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Bob Gibson: "He stabbed his friends in the back for money." Astro First Baseman Joe Pepitone: "Why didn't he write that he is the horniest guy in baseball?" Mickey Mantle...