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...sides-Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Alex Rose, the state's Liberal Party chieftain-joined to announce that they had agreed on who should be the next mayor. Their stated purpose was to save New York City after eight years of erratic rule by Republican-turned-Democrat John Vliet Lindsay, who has dropped out of the race...
...Seesaw-except that the blender breaks down from time to time. The hero, Jerry Ryan, is a WASP lawyer on separation leave from 1) Omaha and 2) his wife. Ken Howard, who plays this role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss until sense collides with sensuality...
CAPTAIN Beefheart, Dan Van Vliet, twelve-year-old-genius-gone-wrong, had a scholarship to go to Europe to study sculpture. But his parents were worried he'd become a beatnik, so they moved next door to these nice folks in a nice residential town. The Zappas had a boy a little older than Don and they became good friends, listening to rock 'n' roll and driving around weekends together picking up peanutbutter...
Thus it was that last year John Vliet Lindsay stood for re-election as mayor of New York City trailing clouds of trouble and portents of defeat. Everyone knows the doubly miraculous results. Running as a Liberal and Independent, Lindsay was both repudiated and reelected. Fifty-eight percent of the voters were against him. Yet he drew more support than either of the other candidates and emerged as a figure of national political consequence...
...years, Procaccino and those he seeks to lead have endured what they feel is a special form of outrage, over and above rising taxes and prices, crumbling services, strife-torn schools and all the other familiar ills of big-city America. That outrage is the administration of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay, which, they feel, has ignored them in its undue preoccupation with the city's blacks and poor. Lindsay liberals, by and large, are not merely for racial equality; they believe that society's stepchildren must be given extra helpings of aid to repair the damage of past mistreatment. There...