Word: lindsay
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...Lindsay administration was slow to react. Four years ago, Sergeant David Durk and Patrolman Frank Serpico went to city hall with names and dates on how cops were being paid off. Lindsay would not see them for fear of undermining his police commissioner, Howard Leary. An aide explained that the mayor was worried about the approaching hot summer and did not want to do anything to antagonize the police...
...last sanity is beginning to appear on the horizon. The defection of Lindsay from the G.O.P. is a signal to the American populace that there is an alternative to the Democratic, the Republican and the Wallace groups...
...Governor Rockefeller, Senators Javits, Percy and some other so-called Republicans would follow Mayor Lindsay, then we would know who was a Republican and who was a Democrat. To the Republicans, congratulations and good riddance; to the Democrats, condolences and welcome...
...Democrats, with gratifying results. Meany's object all along was to convince the Democrats that they had better pay more attention to labor and less to the New Left. Meany made the point again last week when he said that if the Democratic presidential candidate is unacceptable?John Lindsay, for example?he might just support Nixon...
...York's official reaction was immediate, justifiable anger. Mayor John Lindsay attacked the Giants' ownership as "selfish, callous and ungrateful"; he insisted he would pursue the city's present plan to buy Yankee Stadium and renovate it for $24 million, in order to keep at least the Yankees in town. Lindsay also said that he would seek another National Football League franchise to cohabit with the Yankees, but the odds on that seemed slim. For one thing, unanimous approval of all N.F.L. teams is required to shift one franchise into the home territory of another, and both...