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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 under the impact of Watergate. Flournoy has had to devote much of the campaign to separating his own candidacy from the national party, while Brown continues to link the two. In one of his television spots, Flournoy tells viewers: "My name is Houston Flournoy. Houston Flournoy...
...machine member and Keane's law partner, on charges of evading income taxes in 1969 on a $50,000 bribe from real estate developers for pushing a zoning change through the city council. The day after that, still another federal jury convicted Daley's former press secretary, Earl Bush, 59, of eleven counts of mail fraud...
...informally controlling grain exports, the Administration hopes to forestall such embarrassments as the "holding in abeyance" on Oct. 5 of $500 million worth of corn and wheat contracted for by the Soviet Union. Having too hastily assumed, on the basis of talks between Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz in late September, that the Russians were interested only in "modest" purchases of a million tons or so, the White House was startled to learn early this month that between 5 million and 10 million tons of grain might soon be heading to the U.S.S.R. Ford promptly called...
...Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson on NBC'S Police Woman (Friday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), is at least permitted to be just not-so-plain Angie, and any program that allows this attractive, good-humored actress to be her familiar self cannot be all bad. The regular supporting cast, headed by Earl Holliman, is competent, and the action sequences are crisp. There is also some attempt to put the cops in contact with interesting criminals and characterized victims...
...convincingly--that having just the music makes some of the ironies clearer. There are beautifully ambiguous moments like the quiet, harp-like string passage-a rebuke to the Count, a relief to the Countess--when Susanna comes out of the closet in the second-act finale. And director Earl Kim's simple conducting and quiet, steady beat make it easier to see why the citizens of Prague, wiser than the Vienna court which accorded Figaro only a moderate success, adapted its tunes for popular dances...