Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cutting through other tangles that choke his city, Lindsay has done better than just about anyone else could have. Not always appreciated in New York-or in Nelson Rockefeller's Albany-he is generally regarded in Washington offices that handle urban programs as the best big-city mayor in the country...
...violence last week that New York's force was the most sophisticated department in the country in its response to civil disorders and unrest. Most important of all is Lindsay's unique rapport with the Negroes and Puerto Ricans, a fragile yet invaluable link that the Mayor readily admits could vanish in a single night of riot and looting...
John Lindsay is not a man to let his troubles get him down. Although a million pupils are out of school, firemen are on a "slowdown," and other public strikes threaten, New York's Mayor seemed as exuberant as ever last week. Returning from a television appearance, he met TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont for an interview at Grade Mansion. Reported Lamont...
Lindsay was in a chatty mood, laughing over an Art Buchwald column on "pseudo intellectuals," scanning the morning's New York Times to see what Scotty Reston said. The Mayor paraphrased Dickens' opening lines in A Tale of Two Cities: "These are the worst of times and the best of times...
...Then the Mayor quoted the familiar lines from Yeats' The Second Coming...