Word: nonpartisan
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...such ambiguity surrounds Rafferty. He is a super-Republican, a superpatriot, a superconservative. He won his nonpartisan educational post in 1962 by 237,384 votes; he was re-elected in 1966 with a record tally of 2,925,401, or 1,580,000 more than the combined total garnered by his three opponents. A lifetime educator, Rafferty built his popularity on his harsh criticism of progressive education, which he calls "slobism" and the "fraud of the century...
...Washington's National Press Club, former Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and General of the Army Omar Bradley announced the formation of a nonpartisan Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam. "Voices of dissent have received attention far out of proportion to their actual numbers," the committee said in a 900-word policy statement. "Our objective is to make sure that the majority voice of America is heard-loud and clear-so that Peking and Hanoi will not mistake the strident voices of some dissenters for American discouragement and a weakening of will...
Squeak-In Chance. Alioto has the support of old-line Democrat Mayor Shelley for the officially nonpartisan office, but Jack Morrison, 45, has split the party by winning the support of the liberal wing. A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Morrison has held local and state party posts, including the San Francisco co-chairmanship of Pat Brown's successful 1962 campaign for Governor. His only major public office has been on the board of supervisors, to which he won election in 1961 and re-election in 1965. Alioto has consistently outpaced Morrison with his well-organized campaign machine...
...state executive. New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese was delighted, since its parochial school system is in bad financial straits. But all three of New York City's major dailies came out against it. So did leaders of the League of Women Voters, the nonpartisan Citizens Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party. The religious-schooling controversy, old-fashioned as it is, was threatening to sink the constitution completely. Then last week in a surprising move, Governor Nelson Rockefeller came out in favor...
After he was elected mayor of New York City as a fusion candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...