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...Embarrassment. But as the Democrats convened in Syracuse, it became painfully evident that Morgenthau still needed a large vote bloc to win the nomination on an early ballot. And the most swingable bloc belonged to U.S. Representative Charles Buckley, the boss of The Bronx. This was downright embarrassing : after all, Bob Wagner had won reelection in 1961 on his promise to oust all of New York City's borough bosses, and of these Buckley was the sole survivor...
...first things first. Now, Wagner badly needed Buckley-and Buckley was happy to satisfy that need. Just a few hours before the convention balloting began, Buckley announced that he was throwing all but a few of The Bronx's no delegate votes to Morgenthau...
...free vote!" "Down with the bosses!" "Morgenthau withdraw!" The lights were dimmed repeatedly as the chairman tried to restore order. Finally the voting began, and after two ballots and another near-riot, Bob Morgenthau was the convention's choice. Through all the hubbub, Buckley sat impassively under The Bronx's placard. Said he later: "I didn't hear a thing." That evening, Morgenthau delivered a listless acceptance speech to a hall half filled with dead-weary delegates. He spoke with all the enthusiasm of a Georgia sixth-grader reciting the Emancipation Proclamation, and even his ritual invocation...
Incredible Pyramids. Last week the Russian dancers took a boat ride around Manhattan Island. They stared in utter disbelief at the vast automobile crematoriums of The Bronx, where the dead cars are piled up beside the Harlem River in unstable pyramids. Almost every dancer has a camera-movie or still. Awed by the triple run of traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway, they hastened to record the incredible sight. A sparkling cabin cruiser roared insolently by. A male dancer asked if it was privately owned. "Yes," said an interpreter. The dancer grunted: "It figures...
...encompasses all of New York City, from Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx to the farms of Staten Island and east to the runways of Idlewild airport. All year long, every working day, its mobile crew zips around the city in an anxious effort to keep the weekly, hourlong show supplied with finished films. The city police usually cooperate closely, but the two detectives simply had not been told that Naked City would be in the neighborhood that...