The Nation: The Nation, Aug. 23, 1971

Quoting cab drivers as oracles of folk wisdom is one of the more shopworn journalistic devices long ago banned in TIME. But the relationship between New York City cabbies and Mayor John Lindsay is something special. They are to him as the Eumenides were to the heroes of Greek tragedy. A sampling of opinion after Lindsay's conversion:

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