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...York City, the situation was exacerbated in the 1960s by a mayor who also failed to recognize the growing frustration of the white middle class. John Lindsay reinforced the errors of the poverty program by speaking only about the problems of ghetto residents. His Little City Hall program operated only in black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods. He failed to get the snow removed in white middle class Queens Garbage collection was remarkably poor during the early years of his administration and his response was to appoint a Manhattan liberal to the post of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Very...
...once liberal city has become increasingly conservative over the past eight years as many white Catholics have retained their Democratic registration but have deserted the party to vote for conservative or Republican candidates. There is little hope that the city will elect a liberal such as Lindsay in the 1973 mayoralty election. At this writing, it is doubtful that he will seek re-election...
URBAN WHITE ETHNICS, or at least their advocates, are having a field day. Ever since the 1969 New York City Mayoral election, when John Lindsay traipsed out into Queens to explain why those snow plows couldn't come right away, left-liberals have been under attack for having forgotten the "peripheral urban ethnics." Liberals (so the criticism goes) were so wrapped up in furthering the causes of blacks and the young that they forgot about the people who had given them so much support over the years. Radical chic has become distinctly un-chic. Last fall, Nixon and Agnew...
...should print both sides of any controversy which I assume The Crimson attempted in its article about me and the taxi driver on December 19, 1972. I must call to your attention, however, what I consider a serious lack of judgement in your reporting: 1) my attorney, Mr. Reginald Lindsay, was not with me at the hearing before the Clerk of the East District Court of Boston; 2) the statement of the redcap that you received third hand from Mr. Provo ("...saw Evans gesture wildly at the driver, get out of the cab, jump on its roof three of four...
...much aged and saddened Dr. Robert P. Geyer tells reporters that John Lindsay's mayoralty defeat was not only a tremendous setback to synthetics and to him personally, but an irreparable loss for rats the world over. "If you won't nullify Rat Control." Former Justice William O. Douglas tells the Supreme Court, "at least grant these rodents the right to lawful assembly." After the bearing Douglas confides at a press conference: "Now they want to control rats, next it'll be the Jews--you know what that means." The elder justice returns to Alaska to write a book about...