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...Bradley beaten because of his race? Probably. California Pollster Mervin Field found that "race was a major factor." The margin, in any case, was slight, 52,000 out of 7.4 million votes...
Another commanding canvas, painted when Soyer turned 80, is the latest in a long series of portraits Soyer has done of other artists, including Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, John Sloan and many obscure representational painters. This time Soyer's subject is Mervin Jules, now 70, who is viewed, starkly, in an empty room, as a realist icon of aging...
...running neck and neck with Wilson and another seven-term Congressman, Paul (Pete) McCloskey of Menlo Park, near San Francisco. A Los Angeles Times poll released last week showed Wilson leading Goldwater 25% to 22%, while McCloskey was favored by 21% of the voters. Another recent poll, by the Mervin Field organization, has Goldwater leading with 29% followed by Wilson (28%) and McCloskey (21%). President Reagan's daughter Maureen, 41, who entered the race against her father's wishes, drew 7% in the Times survey...
...that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further." So vowed California's embattled Jerry Brown last week about the Mediterranean fruit fly, a pest that has pushed Brown's approval rating to its second lowest level in his nearly seven years as Governor.* California Pollster Mervin Field last month reported that 72% of state voters rated Brown's performance as "fair" or "poor." Some 60% criticized his go-slow approach to aerial spraying of the tiny golden-mawed Medfly, which thus far has afflicted only one commercial farm, but is spreading fast and could ultimately...
...seat-Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (son of the former California Governor) and Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. (son of the current Arizona Senator). At the moment, possible Senate candidates also include moderate Congressman Pete McCloskey, conservative Congressmen Robert Dornan and John Rousselot, and San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Mervin Field's California Poll last week gave Maureen Reagan only 7% of the vote...