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...former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather imprudently billed his campaign as "a referendum on the Nixon Administration." That was hardly the case, but his coattail reference may well haunt the G.O.P. While Chilsen conducted a languid campaign, Democratic State Assemblyman David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee) ran at full throttle all the way and edged his opponent, 63,592 votes...
Taxes and Milk. Intellectual and seemingly inexhaustible, Obey, 30, healed party wounds that have festered since the Chicago convention, and got popular Senator Gaylord Nelson to stump for him in eleven of the district's 15 counties. He had two important factors going for him. One was that reapportionment shifts had cut into Republican strength-a fact that went all but unnoticed last year because Laird had amassed 64.5% of the vote. Another was Republican Governor Warren Knowles' proposal to balance a $25 million budget deficit by raising taxes, a move endorsed by Chilsen. The day before...
Meanwhile, Chicago cops and out-of-town journalists also were still clashing in a month-long trial of 13 demonstrators charged with disorderly conduct for failure to obey police orders to stop their march toward convention hall. Among them was New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton, who testified that he considered the march "a peaceful revolt-a withdrawal for the evening from the Government." Patricia Saltonstall, a former Washington Star columnist and cousin of retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall, told the court that police had struck her in the face with a rifle barrel. She said she would seek an injunction...
...salaried people. Instead, the road to riches twists through the thickets of tax avoidance. As a result, an inordinate number of man hours are spent in figuring out ways to outwit the collector. Because of its sheer intricacy, the tax code is one law that many Americans cannot even obey unaided. Providing such aid has created a flourishing literature of tax-tipstering and a thriving industry for lawyers and accountants, who pocket substantial fees...
Along the walls of the piazza, a sadly dated message could still be read: WE WILL CARRY EVER FORWARD THE FORCE, THE CIVILIZATION AND THE CULTURE OF ROME: BELIEVE, OBEY, FIGHT . . . DUCE, DUCE, DUCE. Yet modern history, Mussolini included, had passed Torregreca by. The imposing ducal palace was actually chopped up into "a squalid maze of schoolrooms and government offices, each with a stovepipe sticking drunkenly out of a window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office...