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...total space devoted to editorial matter has actually increased slightly since the switch from eight narrow columns a page to six wide ones. Says Executive Editor A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal: "Other papers have added water to the soup, but we've added vegetables...
Sulzberger's most important gift to the news side was not a budget. It was Abe Rosenthal, who has done more to reshape...
...looting. In Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, in Manhattan's Harlem, in the South Bronx, the violence and plundering approached the levels of the 1968 riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The cry echoed through the ghettos: "It's Christmastime, it's Christmastime!" But to Abe Beame, and countless other New Yorkers of all races, it was "a night of terror...
...city that used to be a citadel of New Dealish plenty, today's rising taxes and costs and reduced municipal services make for an unusual campaign. It has become politic to be probusiness. Though Abe Beame insists that "we've weathered the storm," his own Temporary Commission on City Finances reported last month that the city is still in peril. The commission urged greater austerity and more enticing tax reductions for business, and told the city it must invest whatever funds it can spare in economic development rather than traditional services...
...after that. And if you never win--well, they say the game is mostly in the playing anyway. New York State is a case in point. For years the state has elected Senators named Javits and Buckley and Kennedy and Moynihan; for years it has rejected two men named Abe Hirschfeld and Paul O'Dwyer. Yet neither has thrown in his cards. Hirschfeld, a millionaire garage contractor, has already spend enough money to buy the Capitol dome in his biennial attempts to win a seat of his own. And O'Dwyer, a die-hard politico, has maneuvered his way through...