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...bypasses primaries in special elections, pits all candidates of whatever party against each other in a single, winner-take-all contest. With a registration advantage of 92,600 to 50,200, Democrats fell all over themselves getting into the race. Of five who finally appeared on the ballot, State Assemblyman Carley V. Porter, 57, was the favorite. He had the backing of the California Democratic Council, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, and a glowing letter of support from President Kennedy. Of three Republicans, only Del Clawson, 49, the mayor of Compton (pop. 75,000), acted like...
...Kuchel, 52, a lawyer by training, looms on California's Republican landscape like a lone tree on an arid plain. His talent for winning elections has made him the No. 1 Republican of the nation's most populous state. Nine times he has run for public office-assemblyman, state senator, state controller, U.S. Senator-and he has yet to lose a race. Last year, when Pat Brown trounced Nixon and Democrats won nearly every statewide contest in California, Kuchel retained his Senate seat by a landslide margin of 728,000 votes...
...libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald Brooks Cameron...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 75%. Docile tribal society has little comprehension of politics. Autocratic Leon M'Ba, leader of Fang tribe and former Assemblyman, heads government...
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...