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...Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega, 76, Minister of the Interior and police boss. Known as "Don Ca-mulo" because of his mulish resistance to change, the white-haired former commander of the Guardia Civil is Franco's strong right arm. He can be counted on to put down trouble wherever it breaks...
Three threads connect the three dis asters. Each of the fatal flights originated from La Guardia Airport. All were approaching airports. And all three 727s crashed at night. Neither the Federal Aviation Agency, which alone has the authority to ground airplanes, nor the airlines, which have 195 of them in service, has detected any structural flaws in the 727, the most thoroughly tested airliner in U.S. history. Early analyses of the Cincinnati and Salt Lake crashes indicate possible pilot error; the Chicago disaster is still a mystery (the plane's flight recorder has not yet been recovered from Lake...
Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that Lindsay will have an easy time being reelected Mayor. He has been fond of citing Fiorello La Guardia as his spiritual predecessor; it is only prudent to note that La Guardia tended to receive smaller majorities each time he ran, and he had larger majorities than Lindsay to begin with. (John Purrey Mitchell, an earlier reform mayor, failed to win reelection entirely.) Whatever the success of his programs, the new Mayor will certainly receive plenty of adulation from the Herald Tribune, Times, Time, etc., but New York in 1969 will still...
Costumed in flying togs, Danny Kaye set off from New York's La Guardia Airport to pilot a friend's twin-engined jet to nine U.S. cities to whoop up support for the Halloween "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" campaign. The idea was for the kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed...
...Rican, 11% Italian, 4% Irish. There are an estimated 1,800,000 Jews, 3,400,000 Roman Catholics, and 1,700,000 Protestants. And there are 3½ times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, the rare Republican candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct enough to hold the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) minority, yet independent enough to appeal to reform Democrats...