Word: aprill
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Transcendent Issue. In the initial election round April 1, fully 74% of the electorate went for Yorty's opponents. Bradley led the field of 14 with 42%, a remarkable showing for a black candidate in a city where Negroes constitute less than one-fifth of the population. But Democrat Bradley is no insular ghetto politician. A lawyer and retired police lieutenant who had bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents...
Yorty seized on Reddin's resignation after the April vote as evidence that if Bradley won, police morale would be impaired. Reddin, who took a lucrative job as a television newscaster, seemed to support Yorty's stand while interviewing the two candidates on TV just before the runoff. His questioning of Bradley was harsh; to the mayor, Reddin was uncommonly sweet. Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor...
Strange Allies. Yorty's strategy, which Bradley last week called a "blatant appeal to racial prejudice," was effective even beyond the mayoral contest. It produced a vote of 840,000, or 75% of the 1,100,000 voters eligible, 137,000 more than had turned out in April. Two school board candidates who traded heavily on the violence issue defeated moderate incumbents...
...outcome was surprising not only because of the April vote but also because two authoritative California polling firms, Don Muchmore's and Mervin Field's, found Bradley ahead into the last week. Field's final report gave Bradley a lead of five points, with Yorty gaining. Muchmore's sampling put Bradley 17 points ahead. Both surveys, however, indicated a large undecided vote. The trouble with any poll involving a Negro candidate, of course, is that many of those interviewed are reluctant to admit to racial prejudice. Some who succumbed to Yorty's argument and their...
...Gaullizing France. True to his self-styled image as a draft candidate of the people, Poher conducted the finale of his campaign in his official residence as Senate president. It was in the Senate itself, in April, that plain-talking Alain Poher had mounted his challenge to De Gaulle and his referendum. Now, as a leading candidate to succeed De Gaulle, Poher summoned the press to announce his "plan of action...