Word: mayors
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...John V. Lindsay-tacking the support of either major political party-won his bid for re-election as Mayor of New York yesterday. Running on the Liberal and Independent tickets, he defeated Democrat Mario Procaccino and Republican-Conservative John Marchi...
Projected estimates also showed that the Mayor was outpolling Procaccino among registered Democrats and nearly outpolling Marchi among Republicans. The all-important Jewish vote was running about 44 per cent each for Lindsay and Procaccino...
...election followed a heated campaign which has shattered the organizations of both parties in New York. Most liberal party leaders have bolted party ranks to support the Mayor against his conservative opponents. Former Mayor Robert Wagner, Procaccino's runner-up in June's Democratic primary, increased Lindsay's momentum with a surprise last-minute endorsement Monday...
...Carl B. Stokes-the first black mayor of a major American city-won a second term by a tiny margin in Cleveland yesterday, but a black candidate for mayor of Detroit trailed as late returns came...
While Lindsay goes into today's election the front-runner, he was considered the underdog at the campaign's outset. Procaccino, who won the Democratic primary with less than a third of the vote against four liberals-Former Mayor Robert Wagner. Badillo, Norman Mailer and Congressman James Schener-saw his initial strength erode quickly over the summer and fall. Political columnists blame his apparent decline on his failure to make any reconciliatory gesture to his party's disaffected middle-class liberals, his inability to branch out beyond the law-and-order issue, and his "hot" image in the recent three...