Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pragmatic "New Breed." It wound up in strange company. On the program preceding the keynote were remarks from two of the most outspoken representatives of an older breed?Barry Goldwater and California's conservative Senator George Murphy. But the man who was to introduce Evans, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, is himself a paradigm of the progressive politicians who have brightened Republican ranks in recent years...
Someone, say, like John Lindsay. Nixon's aides hinted broadly, in fact, that the stalwart New York mayor was the candidate's first choice. "He's brainy and courageous," said one Nixon lieutenant. "He's got one of the toughest jobs in the world, and he's dived right in and made the most of it." When asked a few weeks ago how he felt about the "dream tickets" that included his name, Lindsay quipped: "I do have bad dreams occasionally." But many Republicans were convinced that the mayor would jump at the second spot. "He has a good image...
Divorced. By Jerome P. Cavanagh, 40, Detroit's personally controversial but politically effective mayor since 1962: Mary Helen Cavanagh, 38, onetime beauty queen; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, eight children; in Detroit. Mrs. Cavanagh charged the mayor with drunkenness, and punching her in the stomach while she was pregnant; he said she conspired with his political enemies and used "mule-skinners' language" in front of the children. The judge gave Cavanagh custody of four of the brood. Mrs. Cavanagh says she will appeal, charging that the judge knuckled under to "political pressure...
...both sessions on Monday and the one Tuesday night, they had to find a glittering cast of speakers who would bring honor to the Republican party without touching at all on the question of who should be nominated. To be sure, Barry Goldwater, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mayor John V. Lindsay in their own ways indirectly supported their choices for the top spot on the ticket through what they said, but for the most part those first two days were uncontroversial, and insufferably boring. The television networks do well to cut into and out of speeches in a kind...
...write this a few hours before Wednesday night's voting session, the Republican Convention is something of a joke. When Mayor Lindsay and Sen. John Tower of Texas can agree on a Vietnam plank although one is a dove and one a super hawk, when Rockefeller can talk about winning (and the New York Times can try so hard to believe him) at a convention whose delegates go wild for Barry Goldwater and give a louder ovation to Max Rafferty than to Mayor Lindsay, when Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland can switch his allegiance from Rockefeller because...