Clip Job: Mary Perot Nichols Opens Her Parachute
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January 6, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 12
Mrs. Nichols Leaves Voice, Joins City
Mary Perot Nichols, an assistant editor of The Village Voice, will join the Lindsay administration on January 17 as press aide to Parks Commissioner Thomas P.F. Hoving.
Mrs. Nichols in her writing has been the most hard-hitting public critic of the parks policy of former Commissioner Newbold Morris and his predecessor, Robert Moses. She was consistently scornful of the standardized parks built by the Parks Department and of the standardized equipment placed in them.
She was also highly critical of the city's huge expenditure of money for the World's Fair and predicted correctly in 1964 that the Fair would not meet its financial obligations to the city. She castigated the metropolitan press for apparently closing its eyes to the failures of the Fair.





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