POLITICAL NOTES: The Languid Battle

When New York's Mayor Vincent Impellitteri got beaten in the Democratic primary last month by Robert F. Wagner, 43, son of the late Senator Robert F. (Wagner Act) Wagner, he simply re-oiled his rusty armor and re-entered the lists as an independent. Since Impy got to City Hall in the first place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality...

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