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...been swirling around their heads, their next mayor will be, no matter who wins next week's election, an incompetent, a liar, an as sociate of criminals and a betrayer of the public trust. After a series of "debates" between incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63, and black City Councilman and Ex-Cop Thomas Bradley, 55, the Los Angeles Times complained in disgust: "Slashing personal attacks apparently win votes. Well, that is what passes for politics in Los Angeles...
Last week Yorty, at 63, the running-est politician this side of Harold Stassen, came in second to City Councilman Thomas Bradley, 55, in Los Angeles' nonpartisan mayoral primary. The two will meet in a runoff May 29. Trailing behind Bradley's 36% and Yorty's 29% in the primary were Unruh, with 19%, and former Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin, with...
...three--the Departments of Justice and Labor. "I am neither a male chauvinist organization nor an exclusive final club," former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas tells a stunned commencement audience, "nor is Paul Freund." Honorary degrees go to miler Jim Ryus (". . .a credit to his race. . .") and City Councilman Alfred E. Velluci (". . . while a less hearty warrier could not have pursued his attempts to turn the Yard into a parking lot and the Lampoon into public favatories, he has persevered until his visions were a reality...
...whale of a lot, if you are Robert W. Harshaw, mayor of McConnells, S.C. (pop. 200). Harshaw, 69, a dairy farmer, does not remember specifically applying for a federal grant. Still, he received a check for $346. Uncertain as to what to do with such dubious largesse, Harshaw consulted Councilman Sam Crawford, who advised: "Just send the darn thing back." Which is precisely what Harshaw...
Cambridge Councilman Walter Sullivan proposal to raise hitchhiking fines to $25 in Cambridge...