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Since the days of Fiorello La Guardia, New York has seemed a fairly antiseptic town. No more. Oldtimers and out-of-town tourists alike are astonished this summer at the parade of prostitutes who have turned midtown Manhattan into a bawdwalk that compares with Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Atlantica or Rome's Via Veneto...
...visualized the outcome. "An alarming fatalism seems to be settling on this city," he cabled. "There is very little relationship here between word and action. The government seems to be provoking trouble without preparing for the consequences." The Cairo airport, he noted, was more open to attack than La Guardia airport in New York. The men around Nasser, he reported, were more preoccupied with past humiliations than present dangers...
...idea, but local officials and scientists, working for the first time with grants from a laggard Federal Government, are thinking of more down-to-earth solutions. Garbage has been used for years to create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...
...last Republican mayor the city has been was LaGuardia, who, like Lindsay, did not run on a straight Republican ticket, but as a fusion candidate. La Guardia won election by overwhelming majorities, but his victories were personal. He failed to achieve any lasting change in the political structure of the City, which was then and is now 70 per cent Democratic...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, 73, Eisenhower's deputy chief of staff during World War IIs Normandy invasion, who served briefly as administrator of the U.N.'s relief agency, UNRRA, in postwar Germany, but was forced to resign when he outraged his boss, Fiorello La Guardia, by bluntly charging that Soviet spies were using UNRRA as a cover; of a stroke; in Northwood, England...