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...Arthur Levitt to supervise the city's finances and set limits on its spending; (2) a new financial deputy to keep a watch on the city's books; and (3) a complex plan to have the state borrow the $2 billion via the Municipal Assistance Corporation (Big Mac), the major banks and other sources...
Well things didn't really get hot till we got out to Pegleg Mac's. About an hour and a half from Ketchum, down in the valley on the far side of snow-towered Galena Pass, is Pegleg's spread: some pint-sized log cabins, a twin-holer outhouse, a good bit of fence, and the hot springs. We hadn't come to admire the fence...
...blast me when, stepping onto his porch, his door popped open a crack and he stood naked in the glow, his hands hidden as I told him we'd be on his property a while longer, if it suited him. Briggs and I hadn't come to Pegleg Mac's to cruise his rutted road, the night's sweat dripping off the Delac as she heaved in the ruts, looking for a girl out wandering in stars she said were "fucking intense," feeling all cold and wooden inside. Coming out to Pegleg Mac's, we hadn't counted on poking...
Three days later old Daniel and Gay were back together for another month. Bridget and Jenny were staying over and Briggs and I were out hustling. We were all shouting across the fiber-board, and though nobody talked about Pegleg Mac's, we found plenty other low brow chit-chat...
...Yorkers, at least, seemed to take heart. New York Governor Hugh Carey, who had put pressure on Big Mac to take a tough stand with the city, called the mayor's program "an act of courage." Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, a Republican who had led the fight to prevent additional state aid to the city, said that Beame "has made a 180-degree turn, which is exactly what had to be done." But it would have been better if Beame had made his turnabout earlier. In the time-honored fashion of New York politicians...