Civic Responsibility

New York's Mayor John Lindsay is beset by Republican conservatives in tent on denying him G.O.P. renomination this week, and by middle-class voters discontented over late garbage trucks, rising rents and the high crime rate. He has somehow managed to endure a campaign of catcalls and criticism. It was obviously the last straw when a radio chatter host named Barry Gray, awaiting Lindsay's overdue appearance on his nighttime show, began berating him in absentia for city ills ranging from street violence to pavement potholes.

En route to the station, Lindsay listened to the program over his car radio with increasing rage. When he finally arrived, he delivered a steamy counterattack. Then Gray needled the mayor about illegally parked cars near the studio--autos that bore no traffic tickets. Lindsay retorted: "Why didn't you report them?" Finally, after a lecture to Gray on civic responsibility, the mayor stood up and grumped out of the studio. Spotting a limousine awaiting another of Gray's radio guests parked in front of the Madison Avenue building housing the studio, Lindsay shouted at the bewildered chauffeur: "Whose car is this? This is a bus stop--get out of here immediately!" In panic, the driver moved forward, then back, but was cut off by the mayor's car maneuvering out of an adjacent parking spot. Lindsay climaxed the confrontation by leaping out of his car to bellow again: "I told you to get this car out of here --now move!" At which the driver fled in panic.

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