Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years since City Council Candidate Barry Goldwater led it into office against a scandal-spotted Democratic administration, Phoenix's staunchly conservative, nonpartisan Charter Government has cleaned up the city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well...
Policing Job. It was different this time. Before last week's election, General Isagani Campo, chief of the 17,000-man Philippine constabulary, told both candidates that his men were nonpartisan and intended to do their policing job and nothing more. On election day, reinforced by detachments from the regular army, the constables avoided any suggestion of intimidating voters by remaining 100 yds. from the polling places-but they kept order. Civic-minded organizations such as the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Columbus set up volunteer, nonpartisan groups to tally results...
...Council and four years in the mayor's office, Miriani seemed to be an institution. He had the support not only of Detroit's daily newspapers but of civic leaders ranging from labor officials to Henry Ford II to Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara. Opposing Miriani in the nonpartisan election was an unknown named Jerome P. Cavanagh, 33, a lawyer who had never before run for public office. At first, Cavanagh's chief political asset seemed to be his photogenic wife and six children. But as the campaign progressed, Cavanagh developed a big issue: the economic health...
...headlines, the question of whether or not military officers should be allowed to make political speeches has become one of the hottest potatoes in Washington. On one side are Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Arkansas' Senator J. W. Fulbright, who argue that military leaders should only take nonpartisan stands in public. On the other side are South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond and Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who accuse McNamara and Fulbright of trying to gag officers of the armed forces, especially any who are to the right of the Administration. Later this month...
This year, Miriani is facing serious opposition in Detroit's nonpartisan mayoralty race. His opponent: Lawyer Jerry Cavanagh, 33, who describes Miriani as a ''ceremonial figurehead who presides over the abandonment of the city." Cavanagh talks of attracting new industry, capturing a bigger slice of the St. Lawrence Seaway trade, and, if need be, leveling an income tax on anyone-including suburbanites-who makes money in Detroit...