Boosted and backed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany
Hall for Republicanism upon moving the family outside the biggest city's limits to Long Island's Long Beach (pop. 31,800). Carlino promptly demanded "a greater realization of the problems of the metropolitan area," received a vigorous,...
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