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...have not lived up to Price's expectations. Some Lindsay aides say that the effort to politicize them did not come early enough. CIA workers in the Bronx and Brooklyn have been unwilling to come out and campaign in district races...
...received the Americanism Award of the Catholic War Veterans of Queens Country for his record of anti-Communism. He claims that the Goldwater debacle of 1964 must be blamed on Rockefeller and Javits because they did not support him. Congressman Paul Fino, the Clark Gable like leader of the Bronx, who annually urges Congress to set up a national lottery ("the urge to gamble is deeply ingrained in most people"), condemned the Demonstration Cities Bill as a tool of Black Power...
...split in the party may already be irreparable. Lindsay candidates will be contesting six primaries in the Bronx this June. Fino's reaction has been violent. "It is a cool, calculated attempt to infiltrate every country organization", he said recently. Lindsay has denied this. "There is no such plan that I am aware of", Bob Sweet, the new deputy mayor, answered Fino. "On the other hand, we want to encourage as many good people as possible to become interested and active in the Republican party. I know that Fino and Archinal share that view", But Fino insists "there is nothing...
When a top Negro student happens to be a crack athlete, too, all of academe beckons. Dale Dover, son of a New York City cab driver, was a basketball star at Evander Childs High School in The Bronx and compiled an 89.4 grade average. He was eagerly pursued by Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, N.Y.U., Penn, Rochester and Oklahoma, visited most of those campuses, and still has unused airline tickets around the house. He applied to six schools, was accepted by all, has narrowed the final choice to either Harvard or Columbia. Dale took so many courses that he entered...
AFRICA looms big, beautiful and relatively inexpensive for voyagers who hanker for some spoon-fed adventure. In Nairobi, a visitor can step off an airplane and, within ten minutes by car, be in the wilds of the Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited...