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...lines snaked for blocks around neighborhood drugstores and newsstands earlier this month as hopeful New Yorkers waited to place their bets. Among them: Governor Mario Cuomo, who stood in the rain for 20 minutes in Manhattan to buy $5 worth of chances. "There's something going on in this state," he said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain...
...party pros are doubtful that a fourth man could emerge. "It just doesn't work that way," says Timothy Russert, an aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Cuomo illustrates the dilemma. He is perhaps the most prominently mentioned alternative. Yet having endorsed Mondale and helped him mightily to win the New York primary, Cuomo is not about to turncoat. Nor would most of the delegates want to embrace such an untested, unknown prospect. Various other names float about: Party Elder Robert Strauss, Former California Governor Jerry Brown, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, even Chrysler Chairman...
...blow with Mayor, which has rocketed to number one on the New York Times list thanks to free publicity and some heavy leg work that took the shamelessly self-promoting Koch up and down the East Cast and to Europe. Koch's book will soon be joined by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's, who will soon provide the other side of his victory over Koch in the bitterly gubernatorial race. Sen. Alfonse M. D' Amato (R-N.Y.) promises a soon-to-be-released chronicle of his own peculiar rise to fame and power...
Still, Mondale owed much to the backing of the state's Democratic leaders-New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and particularly Governor Mario Cuomo. In exit polling, 20% of New York voters said they were influenced by the endorsements, and 90% of that group voted for Mondale. Virtually taking control of Mondale's campaign, serving as both surrogate and spokesman for the former Vice President, Cuomo established himself as a national figure in his own right...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo...