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When New York Mayor Edward Koch visited China last winter, he was beguiled by the sight of a million Chinese gliding harmoniously through their streets on bicycles. "I was swept away," Koch said later, "by the thought of what could be." Traffic back home, of course, is a lot denser and meaner than in Peking, but for a time Koch thought that the vision might translate at least partly to New York. A transit strike there last spring swelled the ranks of the city's commuting bicyclists to nearly Chinese proportions. Like Toad of Toad Hall discovering the motorcar...
...Koch's passions are sometimes ephemeral; last week, after the lanes had been open for only three months, the transportation department sent crews out to tear them up-at a cost of $100,000 more-while bikers disconsolately demonstrated and tied up traffic. The lanes did not work, the mayor said, because bikers did not use them-his own bureaucrats' statistics contradicted him, but never mind-and everyone else thought they hopelessly slowed motor traffic that even at the best times inches along in a fuming stream of steel through midtown. Koch's decision was both premature...
...with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many more revelers: Joan Mondale, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Walter Cronkite, Zubin Mehta, Lady Bird Johnson, Sarah Caldwell, Burt Reynolds et several...
Whatever the subject of his photography, Leifer brings to it an uncompromising attention to detail and an unerring sense for the right moment. TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin recalls that Leifer "kept New York City Mayor Edward Koch standing at the edge of the East River for an hour until he felt that the light on the skyline behind him was right. In a sense, he 'directs' his photographs." Such talents have served Leifer well. In England last year, he directed his first movie, Yesterday's Hero, about an aging soccer star...
...winning the Senate nomination last week, she handily beat four opponents, including former New York City Mayor John Lindsay. Her principal competition was Bess Myerson, 55, who had the backing of New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Governor Hugh Carey and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Myerson mounted a $1.3 million TV campaign, financed mostly by herself and her wealthy friends, in an attempt to convince New Yorkers that her experience as New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs from 1969 to 1974 qualified her for the Senate. But Holtzman raised $1.2 million, mostly from small contributions from...