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...series has also stirred readers more than anything the paper has printed in years. As soon as the stories started, the Trib installed two extra telephones and practically pleaded with people to call in with complaints. For the first week and a half, the paper received more than 100 calls...
Calls are now down to 30 or 40 a day, letters come in at the rate of 50 a day. Many reader complaints, checked out by the staff, have grown into Trib stories, and under Trib needling the city administration has been moved to action. It has cleaned up sewage that had been accumulating for weeks in the basement of a city-owned building; towed away autos that had been abandoned for more than a month, clogging residential streets while they were gradually stripped of parts; stepped-up housing inspections of heatless, waterless slum buildings; installed a long-deferred central...
Spurred by the Trib, 70 of the city's and world's largest corporations recently set up an organization to fight the exodus of small industry from New York. Says I. D. Robbins, president of the City Club, a group of civic leaders...
Here to Stay. City officials grumble predictably that the Republican Trib is politically motivated, that it is trying to undermine Mayor Robert Wagner in an election year. But Managing Editor Weiss contends that the timing of the series is coincidental; last year the Trib ran an equally hard-hitting series on conflict-of-interest scandals in the Republican-controlled state legislature. "By definition," says Weiss, "we don't talk about the good things in such a series...
...mayor's aides told Gottehrer: "We know as long as we don't answer back, you're eventually going to go away." But the Trib has no intention of going away. It plans to continue the series indefinitely, hopefully provide New York with the kind of sustained city coverage it sorely needs...