Word: procaccinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written off as almost hopeless. Reviled in much of his own city, the target of a middle-class revolt that had anti-Negro undertones, rejected in the Republican Party primary, the ambitious, activist mayor seemed almost destined to lose. Waiting to restore Democratic rule was bumptious, volatile Comptroller Mario Procaccino, who proclaimed himself the champion of the "average man" (TIME cover...
...Bloc. By September, it was clear that Lindsay's free-spending, fully professional campaign was picking up speed. Few politicians were aware of just how much. Last week they were shocked when the respected New York Daily News poll showed Lindsay leading Procaccino by 47% to 31%, with 19% for Republican-Conservative John Marchi and 3% undecided. As everyone expected, Lindsay scored heavily among blacks, Puerto Ricans and well-educated, upper-income groups concentrated in Manhattan. The surprise was the mayor's strength in the populous outer boroughs, with their heavy concentrations of middle-income whites...
...Jack Fuchsberg, former president of American Trial Lawyers Association (Mario Procaccino's campaign manager...
...about identifying the allegedly prominent Procaccino supporters? I consider myself au courant in metropolitan affairs, but many of the names are not known to me. West of the Alleghenies, I expect, most of the names go unrecognized by your average reader. Parochial notoriety, after all, is not national renown...
...surprising that the backers of Procaccino, who claims to be the candidate of "the little man," are little known outside the New York area; the names were those supplied by Procaccino. Herewith, the gentlemen's titles for readers west -and possibly east-of the Alleghenies...