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Introducing Ed Koch, almost certainly New York's next mayor...
...polls had been closed just ten minutes and 25 seconds when WCBS-XV called him the winner. Sheer primordial joy suffused the face of Edward Irving Koch, who normally has the contemplative features of a Talmudic scholar. The moment passed quickly. Feigning loud dismay, Koch cried: "I want it to be longer! I want to enjoy it more! It's too early! I refuse to accept victory...
...victory it was. Koch's lead grew to ten points last week over the other Democrat who made it into the primary runoff, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. That surprisingly large plurality-78,000 out of 786,000 votes cast-made Koch New York's unofficial mayor-elect, though he must still get through a four-way general election. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett covered Koch's journey from obscurity to fame-and to the precipice of New York's intimidating problems. Barrett's report...
...When Koch decided last November to make a serious run for the mayoralty, he had a longer string of negatives than an expansion baseball team in its first season: no public recognition except in his Manhattan congressional district, no money, no powerful political patrons, no neighborhood organization, no personal pizazz. He did have a small cadre of zealous supporters, the most prominent of whom was Bess Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity...
...those who also had tuberculosis, isoniazid was used. Still newer drugs include the potent antibiotic rifampin, and even thalidomide, which is administered to treat complications, but not for women of childbearing age. Collectively, these are indeed wonder drugs: when used promptly to treat newly discovered cases, says Koch, they can usually make the patient noncontagious within a week...