Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. professionals, big or little. To blur his party markings, Lindsay had asked all Republicans of national consequence to stay away. "I don't need officialdom to build me up," he said. "I don't think the public will vote for me just because a distinguished person says they should...
...specific problems-the need for a playground, a subway stop, new school facilities. Always Lindsay damned the Wagner administration for its isolation from the people. "The mayor ought to be in intimate touch with the blood and guts of the city," he cried. "There won't be a person hurt or frightened but we'll know it at city hall." He promised a batch of neighborhood mayor's offices (one for every 250,000 people) throughout the city to receive grievances...
...Neither the State nor any subdivision or agency thereof shall deny, limit or abridge, directly or indirectly the right of any person, who is willing or desirous to sell, lease or rent any part or all of his real property, to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses...
...rights to ownership cannot be taken away except by due process," said Pruitt. "No such right to acquire other people's property exists. The nature of the right to acquire property always depends on the willingness of the other person to dispose of it." In short, by restoring state "neutrality," said Pruitt, California has simply returned to the U.S. Constitution and "restated the common law of all 50 states...
There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New York, propel his autobiography, Yes I Can, to the bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub...