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...affiliates have also been successful backing school-board members, city councilmen, state legislators, governors and congressmen. California Teachers Association funds went to all but three of the 54 Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
...really close to him"? The phrase, or something like it, pops up in The Final Days and in the novel ground out by newly minted Author John Ehrlichman; Knopf only knows where it will appear next. All of which prompted Christian Science Monitor Columnist-at-Large (and TIME Books Contributor) Melvin Maddocks to weigh in last week with excerpts from a recently discovered 5th century manuscript titled I Was Never Really Close to Attila the Hun. Samples...
...permits any citizen to spend as much money as he wishes to promote a candidacy-provided there is no collusion between contributor and candidate. Thus far no one has dared to take significant advantage of the provision-or the electorate's naivet...
...Cheney, Ford's chief of staff, was on Face the Nation the other Sunday, some California enthusiast sent an election contribution to the White House. Cheney adhered religiously to the new guide book. The money was not delivered to the committee, but was mailed directly back to the contributor with instructions as to how he might send it back to Washington to the committee's address...
...Contributor Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, carefully studied the correspondents' reports and other material on Kubrick. When Kubrick finally did concede to an interview, Schickel flew to London where the two had a four-hour middle-of-the-night conversation in a fog-shrouded studio at nearby Elstree. Schickel found him "tirelessly intelligent, extremely responsive and straightforward, and not at all elusive intellectually...