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Avoiding far-right positions on crime or welfare, he conceives of himself as a moderate Republican in the tradition of former Governor Earl Warren; he calls for a state land-use plan and a full-time state air-pollution control board. But the G.O.P. base in California has considerably contracted...
Eugene Genovese succeeds in recreating the lost world of slaves and slaveholders in large part because he's thought about all this. As America's best-known Marxist historian, Genovese thinks of all history as a story of people in classes--classes whose relations are always historically unique because they...
Political wives find that theirs is the last cause to which their husbands devote themselves. California Representative Pete McCloskey, recently divorced from his wife, regretfully seconds a friend's assessment: "Pete's a great guy. He'll do anything for his country, his friends and his family...
For example, labor leaders meeting in Washington railed against the way inflation is chewing into paychecks, and told the Government to keep out of wage settlements and devote it self to getting the economy moving again. Energy executives meeting in Dallas called for a lifting of all price controls on...
Buckley also said a new booking procedure would free city police offices from the paperwork involved in booking prisoners so they could devote more attention to the streets.