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Bradley is a registered Democrat, like Yorty, but he has managed to pull together a broad coalition of backers that covers the political spectrum. Endorsements have come from Democrats Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, Republicans Charles Percy and Jacob Javits, and several top aides of California Governor Ronald Reagan. To...
Yorty has denounced Bradley as dishonest, a Black Power advocate and an associate of radical leftists. He has gone so far as to charge Bradley, a former policeman, with being anti-law enforcement because of his criticism of the police department's community relations program. The mayor, while accusing...
Mostly Nameless. During a recent speech before "Pro America," a conservative women's club, Yorty said that Los Angeles is an "experimental area for the taking over of a city by a combination of bloc voting, Black Power, left-wing radicals and, if you please, identified Communists." The evil...
-In Los Angeles, the city charter calls for mayoral elections to be nonpartisan. The so-called mayoral primary is tantamount to a general election, which can be won by any candidate getting more than 50% of the vote.
Words to clap hands by in a Negro church on Sunday night? Not really. They just happen to be the stuff of the nation's No. 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Composed, arranged and conducted by Edwin Hawkins, the 25-year-old son of an Oakland...