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...requires delegates to political conventions to be elected, not appointed as they are today. Voters are also to be educated on all campaign issues through regular party conventions. Backroom political favors and private contributions to politicians are specifically abolished. The whole apparatus of elections is regulated by a nonpartisan "overseer of politics," who also finances all campaigns with public money...
There is no statutory permanent staff at the White House. But few new Presidents could easily survive in the 132-room mansion without its nonpartisan hired help. Thus, White House Calligrapher Sandy Fox will doubtless be busy scrawling banknote script on thousands of invitations for Nixon state dinners, as he has since the early days of John Kennedy's Administration, and Curator James Ketchum will continue to watch over the White House art and china collections...
With some reason. The Mendelian domain, nine counties clustered around the port of Charleston, is abristle with 17 Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force installations that provide 55% of Greater Charleston's economy-and testify to Rivers' nonpartisan efficiency in looking after his constituents as chairman of the puissant House Armed Services Committee. Though Rivers, 62, has by no means been responsible for all of the military largesse that the U.S. has bestowed upon the Charleston area, his constituents generally believe that he has, and return him to Washington with metronomic regularity. Route 52 through Charleston is called...
Charging into New York, he thrust aside resident Democratic aspirants to take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture...
Careful Cajolery. When he ran for the nonpartisan office last fall, Johnsonian Democrat Alioto-who made his fortune as a lawyer specializing in antitrust cases-was regarded as the least unqualified of a lackluster lot of candidates. He won, with a landslide 15,000-vote margin over the closest of 17 opponents (TIME, Nov. 3), and San Franciscans anticipated another administration devoted to parochial self-puffery. Not so. Alioto has come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera...