Word: lindsay
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...course, no one really expects anything better from New York City. Hostility, violence, and histrionic acts of aggression are part of its mystique. The Kitty Genovesses and the Galahads of this world and the next are essential for the enhancement of its reputation. For New York, as Mayor Lindsay once so epigrammatically pointed out, is Fun City. Fun for whom, he neglected to mention. Certainly, sexists and masochists should be deliciously happy there...
This is Mayor Lindsay speaking to the men on the Tombs' eleventh floor. I will meet personally with your representatives immediately upon the release by you, unharmed, of all of the hostages...
...that dramatic radio appeal last week, New York City's John Lindsay dickered for the lives of 17 hostages seized by incensed prisoners at the infamous Tombs, known officially as the Manhattan House of Detention for Men. Two and a half hours later, the hostages walked out unharmed and Lindsay walked in to fulfill his part of the bargain. For three hours he listened to a litany of old but urgent complaints: high bail, long delays before trial, and inhuman living conditions in New York's jails...
Senator George McGovern is again fanning his fragile presidential hopes. He has opened an office in Washington and is sounding out sentiment in key states. Senators Birch Bayh, Walter F. Mondale and Harold Hughes occupy the dark-horse stable; former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and New York Mayor John Lindsay, a tenuous Republican, may rent stalls in it. Though a great deal can happen before 1972, they will find Ed Muskie a considerable way around the track...
...hobble its effectiveness by splitting its votes among several dove candidates, as had happened in 1968. A "citizens' caucus" nominated Drinan, then threw money and volunteers behind him. Drinan, 49, conducted an expensive television campaign and was photographed with such prominent personalities as New York Mayor John Lindsay and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...