Word: nonpartisan
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...hall, Los Angeles' government is still overwhelmingly Anglo in makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with...
...President Roosevelts and the two President Adamses, Dean Don K. Price Jr. of the government school said that "it is unusual to have a Harvard graduate assassinated while serving as President of the United States." The director of the institute, Dr. Richard Neustadt, insisted that it is "wholly nonpartisan and wholly Harvard"-and one university professor sniffed that "it might be easier to get control of the Government than of Harvard...
...eleven-member advisory committee, including Jacqueline Kennedy and five other friends of the family, meets biannually to discuss the institute, but has no authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world...
...nonpartisan National Committee for the Effective Congress last week urged Massachusetts voters to elect Republican Edward Brooke rather than Democrat Endicott Peabody, to the U.S. Senate...
Though Los Angeles politics are nominally nonpartisan, Sam was, in fact, the first Democrat elected mayor in more than 50 years. That should have made California Democrats happy, but it emphatically did not. Sam had already shown his maverick streak by supporting Republican Richard Nixon against Jack Kennedy in 1960 after his first choice, Lyndon Johnson, had lost to J.F.K. for the Democratic nomination. When Nixon ran for the California governorship against Pat Brown...