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...mayor of San Diego. An advance man for Richard Nixon in the 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, Wilson won youthful support by putting a $300 ceiling on contributions from real estate developers and by turning down all billboard advertising in the campaign. In Jersey City, 55 years of corrupt machine rule came to an end when Paul Jordan, 30, was elected mayor with the solid backing of young voters, many of them teenagers. Jordan, who graduated from medical school only three years ago and specializes in control of drug abuse, decided to run when Mayor Thomas Whelan was ousted from office...
Even though each member of the city's 400-man narcotics street squads has at least one informant working for him, corrupt cops hungered for more. Logan testified that they sometimes threatened a man with a "flake," or false arrest, to force him to become an informant. Logan once approached a man selling wigs on a street in Harlem. He told the merchant that he would be arrested for possession of stolen goods unless he provided narcotics tips. He did. It was scarcely news when a subsequent witness, Paul Curran, chairman of the State Commission of Investigation, called...
After Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang revolution finally overthrew the corrupt Manchu empire in 1911, Chiang served as one of Sun's best young officers, then went to Moscow for further training. "I admired in those days the whole revolutionary attitude of the Communists," Chiang said later. "When I arrived in Russia, all my hopes about the revolution were blasted...
...Tuesday by putting together a coalition of blacks, poor whites and suburbanites around the slogan "Keep the Big Boys Honest," the same slogan he used in 1969. He based his appeal on his long time opposition to the interests of the Virginia Power Company, the banks and corrupt politicians. (One of his alternate slogans in 1969 went "Henry Howell Don't Owe Nothing to Nobody.") That this sort of consumer populism could succeed may bode very badly for conservatives. Party lines are breaking up on other issues besides race...
...Baskin is heavy laden with home truths. Big cities- Chicago in this particular case-alienate us one from the other. They corrupt. They deaden. Upon occasion, one stranger meets another. Some spark of humanity is generated, if only for a moment, but its warmth and light rapidly flicker and die. Alone once more, the stranger wanders down a crowded street...