Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough, burly, street-smart politician, with a promising future and a flair for the spectacular. When New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay ordered the flag atop city hall lowered as a gesture of protest against the Viet Nam War. Matthew J. Troy Jr. appeared on the roof, coat flapping in the breeze, and put the flag back up. Said he: "That's where it belongs...
Troy was also the master of the smoke-filled back room. Not only was he a New York City councilman, but he was Democratic leader of the huge borough of Queens (pop. 1.9 million). What toppled Troy was a matter of finances-the city...
...next year Sawhill switched careers again, becoming president of New York University, where he had earned a Ph.D. in economics. When Sawhill arrived, the nation's largest private university was in financial trouble. Sawhill has so far raised more than $50 million, slashed budgets, restructured the university's investments and managed to erase the projected $9 million budget deficit he inherited. He is now working to improve the quality of undergraduate education, and, as an example of how the university should concentrate its resources, is strengthening its research and teaching programs in cell biology. Sawhill also likes...
...Vilma Martinez, 35, the daughter of a San Antonio carpenter, worked her way through the University of Texas and Columbia Law School. After concentrating on civil rights for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund and the New York State division of human rights, she moved to San Francisco in 1973 to become the president and general counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. There she has fought skillfully for the rights of 8 million Mexican Americans. Martinez, who herself grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, won a 1974 case before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that...
...Robert Muller, 34, was an idealistic undergraduate at New York's Hofstra University when he enlisted in the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a lieutenant. In 1969 he was shot in the spine and left paralyzed from the waist down. The disillusioning war and shabby treatment accorded the men who fought it turned him into a crusader. As executive director of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Muller is fighting for jobs, better benefits and respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about...