Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most bewildered of all are the city's Republicans. Clyde Brummell, 47, a carpenter and a Republican precinct committeeman, says: "When I was growing up, all I heard was that Herbert Hoover caused the Depression. Now they are trying to Hooverize the Republican Party again, saddling us with something we didn't cause...
...Journal that Evers had developed a strong political machine statewide, Berry shows in some detail how poorly organized a number of counties were. While a number of counties in the Delta did have strong organizations, black candidates in many counties failed to campaign aggressively and did not develop the precinct organization to get out the vote. Many local blacks relied on Evers alone to produce a big enough turnout to give them the votes necessary to defeat entrenched whites. Many county organizations were not even strong enough to keep black voters loyal to black candidates. In some counties--including Evers...
...Detective Sergeant Joe Wambaugh revealed in two bestselling novels, The New Centurions and The Blue Knight, the life of a Los Angeles police officer is tough. Now it is even tougher for Wambaugh, the celebrity cop. Prisoners keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
What first impressed Wierzynski was the civility and fairness of the precinct caucuses he had been observing. In Chicago, he thought, similar meetings would have been punctuated by shouting and fistfights. Later, as he was packing to leave his Minneapolis hotel and return to Chicago, he watched an early evening news report "of snowmobile accidents, city council resolutions and a pronouncement by the Governor. It was intensely local," Wierzynski recalls, "and, I thought at the moment, boring." He arrived home that night, just in time for the sort of late evening television news to which he was more accustomed. "This...
Clyde Brummell, 46, a carpenter and a Republican precinct committeeman, says that he saw something like Watergate coming because of Nixon's self-imposed isolation from the party structure and his reliance on the Committee for the Re-Election of the President: "Why, the local CREEP man told me during the last election, 'We don't need the lunch-pail vote.' Can you believe it? I can't convince myself that Nixon had any part in planning this thing, but I'm astounded at his pygmy-minded approach in disregarding the party structure...