Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three garbage collectors had neatly parked their truck and were en joying a beer break in a Second Avenue saloon. Suddenly they were summoned outside. There on the sidewalk stood the tall, angular figure of John Vliet Lindsay, the mayor of New York City...
Like no other mayor since Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay has displayed a style and vitality that seem to pump adrenaline into the city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard...
...surprising thing is not that a majority of New Yorkers now tell pollsters that they disapprove of the mayor's performance, but that only 51% of them feel that way. Unpopularity is, after all, an occupational hazard of New York mayors; even Lindsay's bland predecessor, Robert Wagner, a Democrat in a city with a 7-to-2 Democratic registration edge, had 53% of the voters against him, according to a poll taken toward the end of his third term. The high hopes built up by a fresh new face made a letdown inevitable. Lindsay was, says Wagner...
...years old and a lawyer, serves on the School Committee which is gradually being emasculated; it no longer controls its own budget and it no longer can pick school sites or construct school buildings. Most of its real power, like that of the City Council, has passed to the Mayor. Few people give serious attention to the members of the School Committee or the Council, primarily because they can do very little. Eisenstadt, to be sure, has a following but it exists only in his own neighborhood...
...Mayor Collins, whose September remarks are responsible, in a sense, for the just-beginning flurry of dinners, may be secretly chuckling over the decisions of so many neighborhood politicians to seek his office. Collins has been considerably more circumspect about his future plans in the last month or so and seems to be acting more like a candidate recently. He may not have completely made up his mind, but it is to his advantage to have many other aspiring candidates believing that he is not running should he decide to campaign for re-election...