Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindsay Anderson's tough-minded treatment of adolescent rebellion, leaving out none of its cruelty and poetic beauty. As well as a film with value for the future, If ... is one of the loci classics of late sixties student counterculture. Distin Hoffman's Straw Dogs, playing with it, is even bloodier and makes less sense...
...kind of place. No one was thinking about the unthinkable -that New York would be unable to pay its bills." Still, the city's current agony has an element of déjà vu: in 1965, when Beame was losing his first mayoralty race to John Lindsay, Barrett published his first and only novel, The Mayor of New York. Its protagonist, Barrett's fictional mayor, was forced from office after proposing an unsuccessful master plan to save his financially hard-pressed city...
...city bureaucracy will probably never be fully productive until it has to face some kind of competition. Says E.S. Savas, who was first deputy city administrator under Mayor Lindsay and is now a professor of public-systems management at Columbia: "There is a myth that government can do a job more cheaply because it doesn't have to make a profit." Private industry, in fact, does many city jobs more efficiently than the public work force. While it costs the city $45 a ton to pick up garbage, private contractors do it for $22 a ton in San Francisco...
...examine the tax status of controversial, but wholly legal, political and charitable groups. The IRS between 1969 and 1973 had also fulfilled an FBI request to check the taxes of some 8,000 American citizens and 3,000 organizations, including Columnist Joseph Alsop, then New York Mayor John Lindsay, Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., Author Norman Mailer, B'nai B'rith, Associated Catholic Charities, Americans for Democratic Action, the John Birch Society, Common Cause, the New York Review...
From then on, the unions got more or less what they wanted from Lindsay, even though they never learned to like him. By the time he left office in 1974, the unions had won wages and benefits that largely outstripped any others in public employment in the country. After three years on the job, a New York City cop is scheduled to earn $17,458 a year and a sanitation man $15,731. A full professor in the city university makes from $24,000 to $38,000 a year; a teacher in the secondary-school system receives an annual salary...