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Contemptuous. When he went to Albany this spring, Lindsay was lucky to have a rowboat. Never had the legislature been more hostile; never had Rockefeller been more openly contemptuous. As if that were not enough, militant municipal unions went on strike last week in protest against budget cuts, thereby tying...
That fact was quickly illustrated. Aside from a few perfunctory meetings with Rocky and the legislative leaders, Lindsay was shut out of negotiations on his own budget. While Lindsay fumed, Republicans and Democrats hammered out a budget, in the process shelving a new pension plan that the city had worked...
AS IN THE Haynesworth case, the FBI and the Justice Department had done a lousy job investigating Carswell. It was clear that his abilities as a judge were below average, that his balking on granting habeas-corpus petitions was a danger signal, and that his rudeness to civil rights workers...
Apolitical. Typical of the elections was the campaigning in the North End, one of the nation's most colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates...
As long blue lines of uniformed police paid solemn tribute to four fallen comrades last week, a chill swept through the nation's largest and sixth largest municipal law-enforcement agencies. On successive days, nearly 5,000 policemen from a dozen states gathered in New York for the funerals...