Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporters and photographers. Rockefeller declined to talk politics. Mrs. Rockefeller said that she had been "called Happy since I was a baby-I would not answer right away if somebody called me Margaretta." She spends much of her time, she said, with her children, or listening to classical records (Wagner, Mozart) or reading (latest novel: To Kill a Mockingbird). Despite all the publicity, she insisted, "I am the wife of a public figure but not one in my own right." With that, the couple went into seclusion on the ranch, which is 125 miles southwest of Caracas and was once...
Delany, a former justice of the City's Domestic Relations Court, is director of the NAACP, and long been identified with the liberal wing of New York politics. In the waning days of McCarthyism, Mayor Wagner accused him of "leftist views," and refused to reappoint him to defend Delany at the time of his dismissal, the present appointment clearly involves a risk that one does not expect presidential aspirants to take...
...election in New York, foisted upon the party U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a hapless candidate who endangered the chances of several Democratic candidates for Congress. Bobby denies that he did any such thing, places the blame for Morgenthau's selection on New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. But the critics insist that Bobby telephoned Bronx Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, enlisted his support for Morgenthau and thereby turned the unhappy trick. And Morgenthau's defeat, of course, did nothing to endear Bobby to his critics...
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Hunters, with Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan and May Britt. Color...
...some New Yorkers, indee_d, Wagner's budget seemed stingy rather than spendthrift. The New York Times called his tax proposals "economically destructive," but in the very same editorial, complained that he had provided only skimpy increases for education, parks and "cultural institutions." The United Federation of Teachers labeled "completely unacceptable" Wagner's $50 million boost in education funds, $39 million less than the Board of Education had requested. To "dramatize the plight of the schools," and pressure the city fathers for more money, the teachers' union planned to have 825 members, one from each city school...