Word: nonpartisan
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Common Cause claims a membership of 191,000, paying a minimum of $15 per person per annum. Gardner's liberal and determinedly nonpartisan "third force" has a projected budget for its second year of $3,800,000, of which roughly a third is earmarked for membership expansion. Aided by word-of-mouth recruitment, which already accounts for 25% of the organization's new members, the rolls could swell to more than 300,000 by next year. They could also shrink, and in that sense Common Cause faces a continued test. Says Gardner: "Our record is fairly well known...
...colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates contented themselves with Magic Marker signs and mimeographed slips reminiscent of student council elections. The atmosphere was distinctly nonpartisan; most of the loudspeaker cars simply urged the people to get out and vote...
...more crucial. Within its limits, the Warren Commission served to mute much of the national agitation that ensued after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet Nam War. Some Americans are skeptical; Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that it would not reduce national tensions simply because "there are no neutral people left in the country." Still, Americans must find some means of confronting what they have...
...group of leaders in academics, law, labor and industry have formed a private council to sponsor detailed nonpartisan studies of national domestic issues...
Ambitious Task. The 14-month study, financed by a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, was conducted by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Citizens Conference on State Legislatures. From its Kansas City base, the group has been working for legislative reform since 1965, but it had never before undertaken the ambitious task of examining all 50 legislatures, then ranking each in descending order of quality...