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...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...
...Incumbent Edmund ("Pat") Brown in November. One is Harold J. ("Butch") Powers, 61, lieutenant governor under Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs.) Joe Shell pitches his appeal to California's right wing...