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After failing in two previous efforts to persuade California's Democratic-controlled assembly to pass a code of ethics that would prohibit conflicts of interest for both legislators and state employees, Republican Assemblyman Frank Lanterman of Los Angeles last week brought up the code proposal for "the third and last time." By this time he had changed the bill so as to make certain it would hurt no one. "This is simply a statement of our good intentions," said Lanterman, "and carries no penalty." The assembly piously approved the measure by a vote...
...Bill Pearl's health studio in Sacramento last week, a grunting behemoth of a man did twelve pushups, then collapsed in a sweat. "God, you're strong, Jesse," gasped an admirer. California Assemblyman Jesse Marvin ("Big Daddy") Unruh, 38, surveyed his 275-lb. girth and rumbled happily: "If I get any stronger, I'll be so goddam strong I'll be deadly...
...bill was introduced by Manhattan Republican Assemblyman John R. Brook at the request of the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. It was none too soon to draw the line, said Brook. If the trend had been allowed to continue, he warned, "we might soon have found such fine institutions as St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Red Cross, Columbia University or the American Legion linked with diapers, liquors and fertilizers...
...career-or at least so he hoped-went pixy Pugilist Archie Moore. In San Diego, Calif., Democrat Moore announced his candidacy for the State Assembly in November's election. Although sometimes chary about defending his light-heavyweight boxing championship, Archie promised if elected he "will be a fighting assemblyman...
Route to Ambush. Even when peace came, the Rhee authorities refused the villagers redress. In fact, no Shinwon survivors dared visit the mass grave because those who went were immediately put on the government's list of suspected Communist sympathizers. When Democratic Party Assemblyman Suh Min Ho called for an investigation, the government soon hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers...