Word: assemblyman
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Opposing him in California's June 5 primary is Los Angeles Assemblyman Joseph Shell, 43. A strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) ex-U.S.C. halfback, Shell is the champion of the state's deep-dyed Republican conservatives, ranging rightward from the Barry Goldwater admirers. Shell has plenty of money, both from his own bank account (he made a fortune in oil exploration) and from wealthy followers...
...California legislature, Republican Assemblyman Charles Chapel. 57. has a reputation as an incurable practical joker; his humor runs toward infuriating Roman Catholic colleagues by solemnly informing them that someone has just introduced a resolution attacking the Pope. But last week Chapel gave himself a hotfoot-and it could cost him dearly...
...Nixon's opponents in the primary will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
Died. Irving McNeil Ives, 66, two-term (1946-58) U.S. Senator from New York, a quiet upstate Republican who identified himself with labor's cause, fought in the Senate-often alongside then Senator John F. Kennedy-for clean unions, but was proudest of his success as a state assemblyman in pushing through New York's pioneering Fair Employment Practices Act prohibiting racial or religious discrimination in hiring; following stomach surgery; in Norwich...
...conflict-of-interest charges that he had had an interest in an atom-shelter firm that stood to profit from a $100 million school and college shelter program that Carlino helped get enacted last year. The source of the charges was a political oddity: Manhattan's Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Mark Lane, 34, a shaggy lone wolf who is as popular with his liberal Yorkville and East Harlem constituency as he is unpopular with his colleagues on both sides of the Albany aisle. "Mark," says a friend, "sees himself as a beplumed knight on a white charger whenever he undertakes...