Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towering ego and a deep awareness of everything going on around you" are necessary ingredients for success in journalism, freelance writer Jeff Bradley advised last night in a Winthrop House writing seminar...
...Bradley, 64, who spent 21 years on the Los Angeles police force while getting his law degree at night, is trying to become the first black elected Governor in the U.S. His campaign slogan is typically low key: "He doesn't make a lot of noise. He just gets a lot done." Now he is spending some $100,000 a week on TV and radio ads "to get the people to understand Tom Bradley." With unemployment at 10.3% in the state, Bradley says, the only issue that counts is "jobs and education. Jobs and housing. Jobs and agriculture. Jobs...
...ranking unemployment first. Deukmejian, 54, portrays himself as the law-and-order candidate and reminds voters that he wrote the state's tough "use a gun: go to prison" statute. He has tried, with little success, to identify his opponent with the noteworthy outgoing Governor. Charges Deukmejian: "Tom Bradley endorses the same policies, has the same friends and would follow the same tactics in Sacramento as Jerry Brown...
Deukmejian, with fund-raising assists from President Reagan and Gerald Ford, is spending about $7.5 million on his election effort. This is about the same as Bradley's budget, but the Republican needs to compensate for his late-starting campaign: he unwisely stayed off the campaign trail all summer after defeating Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb in the June primary. One imponderable is whether California, which is still largely conservative on race, will be willing to elect a black Governor. The betting is that Bradley's steady performance during his nine years as mayor of Los Angeles has largely...
...Olympics and to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the International Wildlife Fund, he was invited to a soirée at the posh California Club. But the establishment, it transpired, prohibits women and has no black members. Philip's host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even for Philip's gentle blood. Being a proper guest, he deigned not to go where his host would or perhaps could not. Jolly good no-show, especially for a member of such all-boy, old-boy bastions as White...