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Last week Yorty, at 63, the running-est politician this side of Harold Stassen, came in second to City Councilman Thomas Bradley, 55, in Los Angeles' nonpartisan mayoral primary. The two will meet in a runoff May 29. Trailing behind Bradley's 36% and Yorty's 29% in the primary were Unruh, with 19%, and former Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin, with...
...original, Hero Hugh Conway (Peter Finch) is a sort of nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley...
...defended this practice on the grounds that he was just "part of the chain of command" that leads to the White House. That is an appallingly limited vision of the role of the FBI, which under Hoover had proudly maintained its independence from eight Presidents and served as a nonpartisan investigative agency to aid evenhanded justice. Indeed, the Gray nomination has led some liberals to yearn almost nostalgically for the days of Hoover, despite all their previous complaints about the cantankerous FBI chief...
More generally, what concerns the critical senators is the charge that Gray is turning the FBI into an arm of the Administration. Last September he went against the FBI'S nonpartisan tradition and ordered 21 agency field offices in 14 states to file expert advice on how the President and his aides could best handle campaign issues related to criminal justice. Gray himself went on the stump for Nixon and made pro-Administration speeches in Butte, Mont., Cleveland and Spokane-blatantly political activity his predecessor would never have undertaken...
...most unusual call to rally round Richard Nixon's upcoming inauguration comes from his old Democratic adversary Hubert Humphrey. In a 60-second TV spot he made at the request of the President's inaugural committee, Humphrey delivers a nonpartisan plea for American unity-a happy thought that he agreed to pass on before the bombing of North Viet Nam resumed. Humphrey went ahead with the taping despite the raids, but as an aide said curtly: "It's not a policy endorsement...