Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brooded about his departure; just a day or so before he announced his decision, he offered to stay, but Johnson refused to consider this. In New York, Moyers, who gets along well with Bobby Kennedy, will undoubtedly have a voice-and perhaps a future-in the state's talent-starved Democratic Party...
...Police Commissioner Howard Leary, 55, a career cop with a law degree who rose to head Philadelphia's police force before being asked to New York by Lindsay. Leary has displayed not only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree...
...Doorstep. Not all the talent in the world, of course, can solve some of Lindsay's problems. Despite a variety of economy and efficiency measures, Lindsay faces another deficit threat next year, and he admits that local taxation has gone "almost to the point of no return." Lindsay believes that the city's agony of purse and soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic...
While worrying about the plight of the ghetto, Lindsay also gives some hope to the city's despairing -and departing -middle class and its huge reservoir of talent. His interest and participation in cultural activities and his just plain hijinks -capering on the Manhattan Bridge with a film crew to encourage motion-picture production in the city or playing touch football in Central Park -are reviving the city's ability to enjoy itself. If his energy and courage hold out, Lindsay may just manage to make New York City more livable as well as more governable...
...Angeles Dodgers, the Dodgers have won two National League pennants. The most common story was that Wills had angered Owner Walter O'Malley by quitting the Dodgers' post-season tour of Japan. Yet O'Malley is one of baseball's shrewdest judges of talent, and he may simply feel that Wills, 34, and injury prone nowadays, is over the hill...