Word: procaccino
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...next stop, Procaccino sinks into the car seat. "I tell you, fella, this is the tough way to do it. If I had the money, I wouldn't do it this way, but I don't have any choice." When the conversation turns to his record and Lindsay's, he recalls that he has been in the public employ for 25 years. "I challenge you to tell me what mistakes I made in those 25 years...
TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch traveled through the boroughs of New York City with Mario Procaccino. Here is his report on a day with the candidate...
...station wagon step Procaccino and his two running mates. The crowd is friendly, the candidates cheerful, the encounter an instant success. A woman approaches, gray, wrinkled, ancient. "I voted for him," she says of John Lindsay. "But I hate him. I hate him! You got to get him out of there." Procaccino replies with his customary vehemence: "I got news for you. We are going to get him out. But I want to remind you of why you voted for him. Because he's pretty, that's why. Now I'm not pretty...
Apart from the scarcity of Negroes in the crowd, there is nothing tangible to suggest the campaign's racial undertones. But here, as at other stops, a white citizen gets the candidate's ear, whispers urgently. Procaccino steps back and says: "Listen, I just want you to know that as far as I'm concerned, each man in this city is as good as any man." The leader and entourage sweep down the street. Procaccino stops at a pizza stand, buys wedges for himself and his running mates. Nibbling from his left hand, shaking with his right...
...Jackson Heights, the people are better dressed, younger and even friendlier than in Astoria. Procaccino's right thumb is swollen and painful. The crowd pushes, pats, pummels him. He is near exhaustion, but enjoying him self. "Sometimes," he says once he is back in the car, "I don't think I'm going to be able to make it." He is asked why, in view of the wear and tear, the enormous problems of the job, his wife's reluctance about his running, is he making the race. "I guess it goes all the way back...