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...more than 2,000 of the reptiles to the Audubon Society. The organization's leaders bravely accepted the gift, and plan to truck the alligators to refuges in other Southern states. In the bargain, Audubon officials also got some free advice from William Summerville, general curator of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City: "Keep their backs sprayed while they're in the truck so they don't dry out. Make sure they're all the same size so they don't eat each other, and keep them...
...They are: 1) Lindsay, who could always change his mind and run again, 2) Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative and much decorated former policeman, who in his Bronx office dispenses help to complaining constituents in the style of the Godfather, and 3) Republican State Senator John Marchi of Staten Island, an able conservative who is indisputably his own man. An overriding consideration: Rocky wants some control over city hall...
...last, some G.O.P. county committeemen gagged at having the Wagner candidacy rammed down their throats. New York County (Manhattan) committeemen swallowed passively, but Kings (Brooklyn) refused to submit. So did Richmond (Staten Island). In rowdy Saturday sessions, however, Queens and The Bronx gave their support to Wagner. Rocky and Rose had won, but not overwhelmingly. Still, it was only the first inning of the game, and Wagner had yet to say firmly that he would play ball...
Although he is doubtless an honest fellow, it is not hard to imagine O'Donnell stuffing ballot boxes in Queens or Staten Island. He is an overweight white-faced Irishman, and he is so rosy about the prospects of his candidate that in conversations he assumes a fatherly manner, releasing bits of information between pitches of the World Series game on television. In any other year, you would take O'Donnell for a Democrat...
...retardation, such facilities are Hogarthian reflections of a Bedlam approach to the problem. They are chronically short of funds and personnel, do little to train the more seriously afflicted and can rarely maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point (TIME, Feb. 14). Talking about the care in state custodial institutions generally, Willowbrook Director Jack Hammond says: "It's inhuman. We're treating the mentally retarded as if they have somehow offended...