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With a light voter turnout (62,100), it might seem that Democrats had handed the Republicans a victory merely by staying home. But the fact was that in precinct after precinct a sizable share of the Democrats who did turn out voted for Clawson. Gloomily, Democratic Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh summed it up: "The people of this state are not as liberally inclined as some think. The Democratic Party may be a half step out of time with the general ideological feeling of the people...
...current, coalition leadership has shown a receptivity to any activity generated by Young Republicans: whether it be precinct work, a campaign to throttle the National Student Association, or an "All-American Conference" to enroll minority group voters...
...high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little packets of mercy," to wit, sample cans of contraceptive foam...
...20th Precinct. Manhattan, checked in at the station house to pick up a spare passenger, then set off on a routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked...
...Nixon did not also disparage Carl Greenberg is perhaps partly explained by Greenberg's approach to political reporting. "He covers politics," says a colleague, "as if it were some sort of crime." Greenberg was, in fact, a police reporter before turning to political coverage, and on the precinct beat he learned a valuable lesson: that a police reporter, like a cop, has no business playing judge. He brought this conviction to the political scene, first for Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner and since 1961 for the Times. "I feel," says Greenberg, "that even if I hate...