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...tente has not come easily. Kuchel, 56, among the most liberal and independent of Republicans, is anathema to many of Reagan's conservative supporters. In 1962, Reagan backed Kuchel's opponent in the party primary. Kuchel returned the disfavor in the 1966 gubernatorial primary and then refused to support Reagan in the general election...
California's Governor Ronald Reagan and Senator Thomas Kuchel are both Republicans, but the similarity ends there. They have been ideologically estranged and on opposite sides of party fights for years. Thus Reagan's election in 1966 seemed like a requiescat for Kuchel, who seeks his third full term next year. Of late, however, pressed by party leaders, the antagonists have been quietly learning to live and let live...
...helped win the state for the Democrats against Native Son Richard Nixon. And in 1966, it was Bravo who led the defection from Democrat Pat Brown's camp: Ronald Reagan drew 24% of Los Angeles' Mexican-American vote, thus tripling the usual G.O.P. total. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel does even better in Latin neighborhoods, thanks to his excellent command of Spanish. But the man who wins Mexican-American backing most consistently and heartily is Democrat Sam Yorty, whose maverick manner as mayor of Los Angeles appeals to the Latin sense of machismo (masculine independence...
...Colorado's Republican Senator Peter H. Dominick criticized President Johnson for scheduling a trip to South America this week, when "our fundamental supply lines are about to be threatened by a strike." And two Republican Senators, New York's Jacob Javits and California's Thomas H. Kuchel, proposed a bill that would allow the Government to seek through the courts authority to keep struck industries operating in order "to protect the public health and safety...
...Curtis LeMay, 60. Even so, a good many of his friends think that with all those opinions of his, notably about the war in Viet Nam, Curt might be a natural in politics. So he is being urged to go up against California's moderate Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel next year. In Santa Barbara, LeMay allowed that "if a real movement gets going for me, I might consider...