Word: robert
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...election followed a heated campaign which has shattered the organizations of both parties in New York. Most liberal party leaders have bolted party ranks to support the Mayor against his conservative opponents. Former Mayor Robert Wagner, Procaccino's runner-up in June's Democratic primary, increased Lindsay's momentum with a surprise last-minute endorsement Monday...
While Lindsay goes into today's election the front-runner, he was considered the underdog at the campaign's outset. Procaccino, who won the Democratic primary with less than a third of the vote against four liberals-Former Mayor Robert Wagner. Badillo, Norman Mailer and Congressman James Schener-saw his initial strength erode quickly over the summer and fall. Political columnists blame his apparent decline on his failure to make any reconciliatory gesture to his party's disaffected middle-class liberals, his inability to branch out beyond the law-and-order issue, and his "hot" image in the recent three...
During the Controversy two years ago over the Corporation's choice, Robert W. Yelton, editor of the Design School's magazine Connection, urged that experts in other fields work with the architect in designing Gund Hall. Sociologists and psychologists should be consulted on the design to represent a broader point of view, he said at that time...
Many New Yorkers with sons in Vietnam, or merely conscious of where their tax money was going, have apparently been impressed by the Mayor's willingness to take a stand on this national issue. In contrast to New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Robert Meyner's similar preachings, Lindsay's anti-Vietnam statements were not produced solely for the occasion of the campaign; he alone of the nation's big-city mayors has taken a steady and unhedging stand against...
...retained partisan municipal elections in the face of a trend away from them, requires only a plurality at all stages of the event. The Lindsay camp has made much of the fact that Procaccino could not have won a run-off within his own Democratic Party-former Mayor Robert Wagner would have been a strong favorite in such a contest...