Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly three years as New York City's mayor, John V. Lindsay has seemed to lead a charmed life. Taking office after an upset victory, he was immediately faced with a prolonged subway strike that might have broken almost anyone else. Fortunately for him, New Yorkers accepted it-as they tend to accept all man-made disasters-as well as a garbage strike that made the city's streets look like Saigon's. Nor were New Yorkers particularly troubled when some of Lindsay's aides began to desert him, or when scandals erupted that would have...
...unions of teachers, principals, supervisors and custodians. One measure of their power is the fact that in the past five years, only a handful of New York City's 60,000 teachers have been fired for cause. By last week all of them were at war with the mayor (see EDUCATION...
Tennis for H.I. Lindsay found himself hung up between the need to placate the suspicious, entrenched municipal employees and the need to fulfill the newly awakened aspirations of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Parents of whatever background or color simply wanted their children back in school, and increasingly blamed the mayor for not making this possible at once...
Lindsay has remarkable powers of survival, and he may recover from this crisis too. But for the present, he seems to have isolated himself and to have misjudged the temper of the unions. Ignoring police warnings of risk, the mayor persisted in filling a speaking engagement in Brooklyn only to be routed by a hostile audience stacked with striking teachers and angry parents. The city's Central Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall. The mayor tried to take out his frustrations in tennis, explaining...
...keep some 400 of the city's 900 schools limping along with skeleton staffs ran into a bitter barrage of invective. "Commies!" "Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called...