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...Brack Lee's cranky passion for cutting budgets and taxes makes him a hero to some Utahans, a crackpot to others. Back in 1956, top Utah Republicans decided that then-Governor Lee was a "disruptive influence" in the party, wrecked his hopes for a third term. Lee took revenge in 1958 by running for the U.S. Senate as an independent, gathering so many normally Republican votes that able Republican Arthur V. Watkins lost his Senate seat to Democrat Frank Moss. With the state's Republican organization unforgivingly angry at him, Lee seemed politically dead-until...
...Novelist Hunt sees it, the ideal state's biggest taxpayers should be its biggest voters. The real fat-cat taxpayers would each get seven votes, the lower 40% brack-eteers only a vote apiece. But Author Hunt defends his system not as plutocracy but as incomeocracy: "It is the taxpayer who gets the bonus, not the rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with...
...welcome the fearless "Brack" as new mayor of Salt Lake City and know that my native city will be more lively during his regime. In fact it might not be a bad place to live again...
...sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy, ignored labor's support of Jenkins, gave Lee a plurality of 6,000 votes. Lee's comeback impressed even anti-Lee Republicans enough to welcome him back into the fold, thus paved the way for "Brack" to look ahead once again either to the Governor's chair or 1962's Senate race...
Crimson coach Bruce Munro was very disappointed at the team's performance at Williamstown. "We hung brack and didn't beat them to the ball," he said. "Williams won primarily because it was more aggressive. We were loafing, especially in the first half...