Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Town Blues Sir: "John Lindsay's Ten Plagues" [Nov. 1] illustrates the tragic fate of honest and idealistic men in today's political structure. The mayor has devolved from hero to scapegoat for trying to govern with principle. It is sad to see a fickle public turn on a man whom they hailed as "the hope of the nation" such a short time...
...part thanks to a Wallace vote of roughly 7% that cut into normally Democratic precincts. On form, Nixon should have carried his native state by a far wider margin. Texas went narrowly to Humphrey. The state that finally sealed Nixon's victory was, ironically, Illinois. In 1960, Mayor Richard Daley's magical machine in Cook County helped nail down John F. Kennedy's presidential victory by delivering enough votes to give him a 9,000-vote statewide margin. This time, despite another late flood of Democratic votes from Daleyland, Nixon clung to a slender advantage...
...other Republicans who may well have benefited from the closeness of the election stand at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum and opposite ends of the country: John Lindsay and Ronald Reagan. Mayor Lindsay's future depends largely on his agility in leaping from floe to floe in the sea of troubles surrounding New York City. Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly offered a Cabinet post before the Republican Convention, plans to stay on in California as Governor. So far, his objectives have been largely limited to economizing, but if he hopes to run for re-election...
...newspapers litter the floor. In the back are tables lined with telephones; in the front is a press area with files and photographs of Lowenstein and his family. The ceiling looks like it leaks. A poster on the wall shows Humphrey saying, "Let's Stop Pretending that Mayor Daley Did Anything Wrong in Chicago." There are no HHH buttons in sight...
Married. Sharman Douglas, 40, daughter of Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the 1940s, and one of society's brightest and busiest career girls (public relations aide to New York's Mayor John Lindsay, fund raiser for numerous charities); and Andrew Mackenzie Hay, 40, wealthy British-born importer of gourmet specialties; she for the first time, he for the second; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Manhattan...