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...Daley trumpeted that Vermont would once again become a "one-party state" -for the Democrats...
...narrowly lost his bid for the governorship in last year's G.O.P. debacle. Next year, they urged, Percy should enter the lists against three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 73, a popular paragon of liberalism and a comfortably protected member in good standing of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's well-greased machine...
...again in 1968, and he protested his reluctance to take on Douglas. "You can't fault Paul Douglas as being lackluster or a hack," he said. "He is a solidly entrenched, hard-working Senator. He has managed very successfully to disassociate himself, in the public mind, from the Daley machine, while receiving all the benefit of its work. He works for every welfare measure that comes up and yet has the image of favoring econ omy in Government because he harasses the Pentagon on the cost of screwdrivers. It's quite a combination...
...last week that while 523 towns and counties have organized effective anti-poverty programs, Los Angeles is the only major city in the U.S. that has not done so. Federal officials also claimed that Yorty was one of only two big-city mayors (the other: Chicago's Richard Daley) who spurned a secret offer of special federal aid earlier this year to help forestall summer riots−even though 34% of L.A.'s Negro youths were unemployed.. In Harlem, by contrast, the Federal Government's $4,000,000 program to make jobs for 4,000 Negro...
...said, "the black people are throwing off the control of the same rulers who are making war on working people throughout the world-in Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic and the Congo." At week's end Chicago-where civil rights groups have long campaigned against Mayor Richard Daley and School Superintendent Benjamin Willis-was quiet. But Governor Otto Kerner, at the request of Chicago police, ordered 2,000 Illinois National Guardsmen into the city to stand by in armories in case of further trouble. Then Springfield. Violence then leapfrogged east to the rifle manufacturing city of Springfield, Mass. Trouble...