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...week alone-have been hit. In the summer of 1967, "it" can happen anywhere, and sometimes seems to be happening everywhere. Detroit's outbreak was followed by a spate of eruptions in neighboring Michigan cities-Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Muskegon, West Michigan City and Pontiac, where a state assemblyman, protecting the local grocery that he had owned for years, shot a 17-year-old Negro looter to death. White and Negro vandals burned and looted in Louisville. Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate declared a state of limited emergency as rock-throwing Negro teen-agers pelted police prowl cars...
...heavily polluted New Jersey, which shares high sulphur-dioxide concentrations with New York, a state assemblyman introduced a bill that would empower the Governor to shut down plants and incinerators and prohibit the movement of vehicles and the burning of any fuel during smog emergencies. Private citizens or corporate officers refusing to comply could be fined as much as $100,000 and imprisoned for as long as ten years...
...Wisconsin, both freshmen Democrats went down; Lynn Stalbaum lost his seat to ex-Congressman Henry C. Schadeberg, whom he defeated in 1964, and John Race fell before handsome Republican Assemblyman William Steiger. In North Dakota, Democratic Newcomer Rolland Redlin was wiped out. Even one Democratic freshman who had been considered a virtual shoo-in for reelection was shooed out: Nebraska's hard-working Clair Callan, after a nightlong seesaw count, finally lost to Fairbury Attorney Robert V. Denney...
...able to sit this one out, but his usual followers have been noticeably cool toward Brown this year. Foremost of course is Carmen ("Dragon Lady") Warschaw, who was odds-on favorite to win the Democratic state chairmanship at the state convention in August. Brown's aides quietly worked for Assemblyman Charles Warren, her chief opponent, and Brown himself, despite previous promises to Mrs. Warschaw, refused to endorse her publicly...
Proposition 16 is the product of CLEAN Inc. (California League Enlisting Action Now), a Los Angeles-based lobby founded by San Diego's conservative Republican State Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes, a retired Navy chaplain who argues that smut has brought about a U.S. "moral crisis." The organization's campaign director is William K. Shearer, a top tactician in putting across the now-voided housing initiative (Proposition 14). Says Shearer: "I always liked to think of myself as the most conservative man in San Diego County...