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...House. "My God," he said later, "I never got such attention before." At one point, it appeared that as many as 17 out of New York's 21 -member Democratic delegation might vote against the bill. The Administration enlisted a pair of warring New York leaders - Mayor Robert Wagner and Bronx Boss Charles Buckley - to cooperate in putting the heat on the delegation...
...Minnesota's fight song-The Minnesota Rouser. On the speakers' platform, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Lothrop Freeman, 43, a Gopher alumnus (B.A. and LL.D.) and former Governor of Minnesota, perked an ear to the air, broke off his conversation with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, and hustled over to the band. "Thanks, boys," cried Freeman. "I haven't heard that in quite a while." Bandleader John Celebre, still brandishing his baton, turned to stare as Freeman left...
Never one to rush in where the cautious fear to tread, New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner was brooding deeply. Should he run for Governor this year against Republican Nelson Rockefeller? Would he have a chance of winning? Before making up his mind, Wagner was awaiting a report, due shortly, on a statewide, 1,200-interview survey by Pollster Louis Harris. "Whether Wagner runs for Governor," said a Democratic county chairman, "depends upon what Lou Harris tells him." Plenty of U.S. politicians nowadays wait to make decisions until they hear from Lou Harris. At 41, Harris...
Think Big. Lou Harris is the man who last year advised New York's Wagner that the way to beat the organization candidate in the Democratic primary was to campaign against "bossism" (Wagner did just that). This year Harris has private political polls planned or under way in 30 states. Among his current clients: California's Governor Pat Brown, running for re-election against Richard Nixon; Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, running for Governor of Pennsylvania (TIME, March 9). Most of Harris' political clients are Democrats - 80% ac cording to Harris, virtually 100% according...
...Boston's Mayor Collins, for example, has no direct control over his own school system, transportation or police force-and has control over only 50% of the city's expenditures. New York City feels the heavy hand of Albany in many of its affairs; last week Mayor Wagner was unable to settle a citywide bus strike because he first had to confer at length with New York's Governor Rockefeller...