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Blue Eyes. But the crowds that turned out for the mayor were encouraging. They oohed, they aahed, and they touched. Lindsay moved smoothly, confidently, charismatically through a bustling shopping center. His Florida chairman, State Senator Edmond Gong, declared how he would sound the bell for his candidate: "We're going to do a lot of walking." The schedule went without a hitch, thanks to the planning of Advance Man Sid Davidoff, who had run into initial hostility in Miami. He had been kicked out of his hotel for walking his dog Horse in the lobby and by the pool...
...between the Miami Dolphins and the Baltimore Colts. The Sunny Palm Lodge, a nudist colony, reported a 25% increase in business over last year. Amid all the hoopla, the big political event of the week was the arrival in Miami of New York's newly Democratic Mayor John Lindsay, who announced that he was running for President and would enter the Florida and Wisconsin primaries...
...single week as mayor of New York, confronting crime, disease and stunted lives, has taught me more about America than all my years in Washington." He will base his campaign on the people-partly out of necessity, his staff admitted. No big names have been rounded up for Lindsay...
...earlier testimony in closed sessions, Mayoral Assistant Jay Kriegel, 31, whom Lindsay has called the "best staff man in America," had admitted going to the mayor in 1967 with the sordid details of police crime that Detective Frank Serpico and Sergeant David Durk had given him. By the testimony of Durk and Serpico, Kriegel came back to them to report that the Lindsay administration was concerned about possible ghetto rioting and did not want to upset the police...
...Lindsay's long-awaited announcement of his presidential candidacy may come this week; the Kriegel matter does his white-knight persona little good. Queens Democratic Leader Matthew Troy, who is supporting George McGovern for President, has demanded an investigation. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan acknowledged that he was examining the testimony for possible discrepancies. Lindsay struck back at the "petty, carping, narrow little men" who were attacking him. It was really a case, he said, of people objecting to his effort to assert civilian control over the police-which hardly explains why he was so tardy in exercising control...