Word: hanner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Owen Hanner has it made. Weekdays-or, more accurately, nights -he is petted in London by his charming brunette mistress Alex. Weekends, he travels down to Oxfordshire to be sedately worshiped by his handsome blonde wife Sybil. When not playing house with his unsuspecting ladies, Owen lives dangerously in the business world. A topflight accountant specializing in bank foreclosures, he has devised an unethical but within-the-law gimmick that adds pounds and pounds to his income...
...accusation came from an ultraconservative organization called the Stay American Committee. Formed last October to "combat Communism in Phoenix," the committee put up a slate of city councilors, chose as its mayoralty candidate Insurance Man W. Buckner Hanner, 45. To start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government...
Last week Phoenix and Charter Government breathed easier. Carrying his six councilmen with him, Mayor Mardian defeated Hanner 32,880 to 13,019. But the battle was not necessarily over. Lacking money and experienced candidates, the Stay American Committee had done surprisingly well with its odd charges against responsible conservatives. "We've just begun to fight," said Kay Westermann, a housewife and a founder of the committee. "We ain't beat...