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...make points. He has been appearing at groundbreaking ceremonies and assorted dedications, visiting police precincts, attending meetings of Jewish groups. He also attacked the Viet Nam war for what must be the hundredth time, appealing to the antiwar sentiment that runs high among New York's Jews. To Procaccino and Marchi, Viet Nam is not a proper city issue...
...variety of improvements in city services, including stepped-up police patrols and accelerated garbage cleanups. One press conference was arranged to allow the mayor to be photographed with a rabbi on one side, the police commissioner on the other and a row of uniformed police commanders in the background. Procaccino, too, knows where the votes are. Any Democrat in New York starts with a huge advantage because his party's enrollment outnumbers the Republican and fringe-party membership by 3 to 1. Defections from the Democratic left
...serious threat to Procaccino, but there are still plenty remaining in the center. Lindsay is on the left, he charges, and Marchi is on the right. "And in the middle, there am I, a moderate, progressive Democrat," Procaccino says happily. "That's where I am and that's where I'll stay...
Last spring Procaccino adroitly capitalized on the revolt by Negro militants that temporarily caused tuition free City College to close. To many whites of modest means, who regard the school as an indispensable social-economic ladder, the Negro demands for wholesale admission of blacks meant lowered academic standards and less room for whites. City College Alumnus Mario Procaccino brought a court suit to compel the city to reopen the institution. It put him in the favorable position of using respectable means to stand up to the radicals. He scored points across the board with this bit of alliterative class propaganda...
...Procaccino never tires of life-style comparisons. "Mr. Marchi," he says, "does not fit into this category of people that have to work with their hands, with the sweat of their brows and so forth." He tries to portray Lindsay as an effete jet-setter: "A clean neighborhood is more important to people than poetry reading." That, presumably, was a crack at Lindsay's narration of the text accompanying a performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. "I am not one of the select few," Procaccino insists. "I am not one of the Beautiful People...