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...Nixon administration. The Washington Post tagged Lugar "President Nixon's favorite mayor," an epithet which has stubbornly stuck. Lugar was the only big city mayor to serve as a surrogate speaker for the president in 1972 and his expertise in urban affairs (he defeated former New York mayor John Lindsay to become president of the National League of Cities) made him a logical presidential consultant on city issues. Nixon, however, never singled out the mayor and Lugar is quick to note that the tag was conceived by the Washington press and never the former president himself...
...sadism and repressed sexuality and pointlessness of English public school life, but fails to give us the class connections which inform them (like Orwell's Such, Such Were The Joys, say, did). And the movie dissolves into ponderous surrealistic fantasies near the end. With Malcolm MacDowell, directed by Lindsay Anderson, who more recently was guilty of O Lucky...
...Central Park vice-squad members in bosomy drag. Carol Channing, one of the guest stars, asked Hope what would become of his talent if he decided to retire. Said Hope: "I won't let it all go to waste. I'll give acting lessons to John Lindsay...
JUDGE BRUCE MCMARION WRIGHT was appointed to the New York City Criminal Court bench by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970. According to Wright, city officials were looking around for a black lawyer to appoint to a judgeship and somebody probably said, "Well, how about this Bruce Wright, he should be all right. He doesn't have a big Afro, he has a law office on Park Avenue, and he went to Yale Law School." "I guess I sort of surprised them," Wright says, smiling...
...accused of shooting and seriously wounding a policeman in a restaurant holdup, on five hundred dollars bail, only to have his bail decision overturned by a fellow Criminal Court judge. Wright questioned the right of the judge--theoretically his equal--to overrule him. But the PBA pressured then Mayor Lindsay into initiating an investigation of Wright's fitness to serve as a judge. Nothing came of the investigation...