Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support a highly ambitious and costly university system. With 266,000 students, City University of New York is now larger than 43 state universities. Yet most students receive a free education as compared with the several hundred dollars in tuition charged by almost all state universities. In 1970 the Lindsay Administration began a program of open enrollment, which permits any city high school graduate, whatever his grades, to enter the university. Of the 19,000 students who have been added, some 15% receive an average $30-a-week stipend as well as a free education. The cost of remedial studies...
...when they walked out in 1968, leaving mountains of refuse on the streets. No matter that striking is illegal: the law is basically unenforceable. First given the right to bargain collectively in the 1950s during the friendly administration of Mayor Robert Wagner, the unions made their biggest gains under Lindsay. On entering office in 1966, he was confronted with a strike of transit workers that brought public transportation to a virtual standstill for twelve days. He mishandled the event with a combination of political naiveté and personal arrogance; the mayor-and the city-never really recovered...
...faces an estimated budget deficit of $120 million for this fiscal year, when total spending will reach $11.8 billion, and a walloping deficit of $641 million for 1975-76. But the red ink was years in the making; it flowed especially during the profligate, sometimes inept administration of John Lindsay, who accelerated the practice of borrowing heavily to meet current expenses...
Cliff Gorman, as an Israeli intelligence officer, is what he is: a good comic actor in desperate need of a gag. Richard Attenborough, as the cracked mastermind of the plot, gamely gives more of himself than his small role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard...
...shepherd the city through a crisis he did not create. But the mayor has a few advantages. A homespun accountant who joined the city government in 1946, he can speak to the civil servants with rolled-up-sleeves rapport. Union members do not distrust him, as they did John Lindsay. Unlike Lindsay, who was always feuding with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abe Beame gets along well with Governor Hugh Carey - an asset in a city that receives almost one-third of its budget from the state. In addition, the city's ambitious comptroller, Harrison Goldin, an earlier critic of Beame...