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...finished its report, Chairman McCone predicted that it would anger as many people as it pleased. It did. Civil rights leaders accused it of superficiality, said it skirted around the question of police brutality, and almost entirely ducked the problem of discrimination in housing. "A mouse-size solution to lion-size problems," cried the United Auto Workers Union. The commission staff itself was split. Some thought it should tell Californians what should be done as well as what could be done. But a more pragmatic majority, led by McCone, insisted that it should deal factually with existing causes and conditions...
Only if Williams does not run for Governor will Cavanagh have an open avenue. But in the middle of the avenue will be standing lion-like George Romney, his graying temples glinting in the sunlight. Romney will be a tough opponent, but not as unbeatable as metaphor and newsmagazine suggest...
...ripped to pieces by the critics," she remembers. "So I changed the pace a bit. In my next film I played a call girl. In the following one, a prostitute." In 1962 the pace change included a role as William Holden's co-star in The Lion. She became his lioness for two years, finally broke away when Holden returned to his wife and cubs last year...
...Tans hunted down the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. In fact, the emotional climate has so changed that the chairman of the pro-Eire Nationalist Party, Londonderry Businessman Eddie McAteer, counseled his once fiery followers: "No more unsuccessful insurrections, please. It is still risky to twist the British lion's tail. Just tickle...
OFFENSE •QUATERBACK: Rick Norton, 22, Kentucky, 6ft. 1 in., 1961bs. Playing for a team that started out like a lion (with victories over Missouri and Mississippi) and wound up like a lamb (losing to Houston and Archrival Tennesee), Norton completed 113 out of 214 passes for 1,893 ards and eleven touchdowns. He injured a knee in Kentucky's next-to-last game, had to undergo an operation. The bad knee makes Norton a questionable commodity, but he is still "the best...