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...Philadelphia's police commissioner, Howard Leary. Two days later, after consulting with city hall, Leary named his own chief inspector, who is the top uniformed police official. The new chief is Sanford Garelik, a Jewish officer with distinguished professional credentials. Even before Lindsay took office, Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who is also Jewish, had recommended Garelik for elevation. Two former police commissioners, both Democrats, took up the tired cry of "political influence." Three uniformed chiefs resigned as soon as Garelik was promoted over their heads. City Council President Frank O'Connor, a Democrat who wants...
...drive for want of a secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat who may or may not be able to beat Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1969. Kennedy will probably not be able to win the trust of the Liberal Party bosses or take over the Kings County (Brooklyn) organization or make something coherent...
Bankers have compained that, in a tight money year, they would always prefer to lend larger sums to businesses than to negotiate myriads of small loans for college students. In a letter to Sen. Jacob Javittss (R-N.Y.), the American Banking Association last week made it clear that they will never be willing to do that kind of business...
There is still a faint glimmer of hope that Harvard might land in a three-way tie for the league title, if Princeton pulls off a miracle and somehow manages to beat Cornell. The prospect should be discussed in hushed tones only; if it occurs, tour wrestling since Jacob took on the angel...
...full knowledge of this fact, the A.F.L.-C.l.O. Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union announced that it would soon seek new contracts, covering some 125,000 workers, that would include wage increases of about 6%. What about me guidelines? Said Union President Jacob Potofsky: "They don't worry us." William A. Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers, said that his union would also demand wage increases in excess of the guidelines. In even more open defiance, Cornelius J. Haggerty, head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s building and construction trades department, pointed out that the guidelines have no legal sanction...