In electing Republican John Lindsay mayor of their city last month, New Yorkers responded to a promise of youthful dash and imagination in a city government that had long made a virtue of timorous mediocrity. Last week, as he completed his first round of appointments, Lindsay, 44, seemed intent on honoring that promise.
As his two deputy mayors, Lindsay picked his astute, longtime campaign strategist, Robert Price, 33, and Liberal Party Chairman Timothy W. Costello, 49, an articulate professor of psychology and management at New York University who had been the mayor-elect's unsuccessful running mate for the city council presidency.
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