Word: nonpartisans
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...party state; after 1945, new emigrants from the Republican Midwest cut the Democratic lead from the traditional 12-1 ratio to about 4-1. But Goldwater had no settled political plans for himself when he ran for Phoenix's city council in 1949 on a nonpartisan reform ticket. Goldwater led his slate into office, helped clean up a deficit, and set up a businesslike city-manager system. Next year, he managed the successful gubernatorial campaign of an old Republican friend, Radio Announcer Howard Pyle; suddenly both the G.O.P. and Barry Goldwater became respectable forces in Arizona politics...
From the start of the ballot counting, the cocksure little Democrat led Incumbent Republican Norris Poulson in Los Angeles' "nonpartisan" mayoralty election. But when Sam Yorty, 51, hung on to win an upset 16,000-vote victory last week, there was precious little celebrating among California's Democratic leaders. Indeed, most of them blanched in dismay -for in a state filled with dissident Democrats, Yorty is perhaps the most dissident...
...same time, Bunche insisted that the recent attacks on the U.N. were not caused by the Congo debacle. Last July's events did influence their timing by providing a convenient springboard, he said, but the attacks were part of a calculated effort to undermine the nonpartisan nature of the organization. Bunche obviously had in mind Khrushchev's shoe-pounding in the General Assembly last fall...
...election last week, Poulson figured as a shoo-in for a third term. The nine-candidate field was full of flyweights. There were no issues in the nonpartisan election ("It was the most boring campaign I can remember," said a local editor), and only 41% of the voters turned out. But the election did not quite work out according to plan. Poulson led, but his 179,273 votes were nearly 100,000 less than the combined total of his opponents and he was forced into a May 31 runoff election with former Democratic Congressman Sam Yorty, a lawyer and persistent...
...between the intransigent Irish republicans and the Free State government, which had accepted a patched peace with Britain-found the 19-year-old "out" with the republicans. His account digs up no buried hatchets, which makes this, of all other memoirs of the Troubles, the most acceptable to the nonpartisan. The Corkite republicans had their generals (milkmen and cobblers in private life), their officers' mess, and even a cannon with homemade shells. But they had no front line. By the time they established this military necessity, it was Sunday, recalls O'Connor, and "after his longing for Mass...