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Every year, come budget time, New Yorkers are maltreated to a stagy, depressingly familiar contest between Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The mayor more or less threatens to shut down New York City for good unless he gets more money. The Governor responds with sympathetic noises about how he would like to help, but what can a fella do? Then somehow the two, with the reluctant assistance of the state legislature, manage to scrape together enough money to keep the city operating at its usual siege level...
This year the wails from city hall are more plaintive than ever, and with good reason. Amid inflation, recession, dizzying union demands and the largest payroll and welfare rolls in the nation, the city has lost $500 million in services because of cutbacks made by the conservative state legislature. Lindsay's first riposte was to lay off 2,800 employees, most of them temporary or part-time. Then he took cool aim at Albany and fired. Unless there was a drastic restoration of cuts in city funds and a sufficient extension of the city's taxing powers...
...indeed become an irreplaceable crisis manager and shrewd lobbyist for city and state funds. Disarmingly low-keyed and rumpled (he looks, say aides, "like an unmade bed"), he has charmed state legislators and plugged his office into New York politics by installing hot lines to both Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. As a result, he has engineered a breathtaking expansion of both CUNY's enrollment (now 195,000) and its commitment to solving urban problems. His major accomplishment came last fall when he launched CUNY's "open admissions" program (TIME, Oct. 19). It guaranteed a place...
Even with the defections, Mayor John Lindsay's city runs no immediate risk of losing its standing as the nation's corporate capital. Of the 500 largest industrial companies, as measured in last May's FORTUNE list, 125 have their headquarters in Manhattan. The growing exodus, however, hits troubled New York City where it hurts the most: in prestige and the pocketbook. Already skirting municipal bankruptcy, despite the highest per capita tax load in the U.S., the city cannot afford a commercial hemorrhage. Trade and finance are the city's lifeblood, the main creators...
Today, many of the old critics of the Chicago machine are members of the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley. They argue that somehow, Mayor Daley manages to govern a big city, which is a lot more than flashy reformers like John Lindsay seem to be doing. They also cite the many achievements of the Daley administration and all the buildings he's erected. When he won re-election earlier this month, editorial writers all over the country sighed and spent a lot of ink marveling at his ability to rally popular support...