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...GURNEY McCASLAND JR. San Gabriel, Calif
...this rewarding assignment, Associate Editor Gurney Breckenfeld, who wrote this week's Business story, "Why Tax Reform Is So Urgent and So Unlikely," brings more enthusiasm and experience than most. About a decade ago, Breckenfeld's involvement in the murky problems of housing finance, real estate taxes, urban renewal, planning and zoning convinced him that taxes do more than anything else to shape man's environment. "I'm more than upset," he says, "at how badly real estate taxes have been misused over the years. It's like peeling an onion-you take away layer...
Florida. A native of Maine, Edward J. Gurney migrated to Florida in 1948, was later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
...Last year McLaren and Hulme completed a one-two sweep in the Can-Am marathon, winning five of six races and $165,000 of the total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes to the 1967s...
...surprisingly strong Nixon state, Florida gave the Republicans 14 electoral votes that had been rated as a toss-up. Riding the conservative state-wide trend, Republican Edward J. Gurney easily defeated former Gov. LeRoy Collins, widely-known as a liberal on race. Democrats picked up one seat in the House, however...