Word: reagan
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Most of this year's more interesting primary contests involve clear-cut ideological differences. In California, actor Ronald Reagan and former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher are staging a rerun of the Goldwater-Rockefeller contest, while Governor Pat Brown has been challenged in the Democratic primary by the hero of the casual bigots, Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. In Alabama, Lurleen Wallace is facing an increasingly liberal Attorney-General Richmond Flowers. In contrast, it is impossible to find such differences between the two Democrat Senatorial candidates in Michigan, former (1949-1960) Governor G. Mennen Williams and Detroit's Mayor...
Governor Pat Brown, who was flying home from Washington when the disorders began, made the unfortunate admission that he had been warned of impending trouble. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Brown's rival for the Democratic nomination, both seized the opportunity to fault the Governor for keeping the tip from Los Angeles officials. In fact, Negro leaders have repeatedly warned that Watts would erupt again unless a major effort was mounted to correct its social and economic problems...
Party regulars fear, nonetheless, that a bitter primary fight may seriously damage the Governor's appeal by November, when he will face more formidable opposition from Actor Ronald Reagan or San Francisco's ex-Mayor George Christopher, the leading contenders for the Republican nomination (TIME, Feb. 11). Brown supporters angrily labeled Yorty a "stalking horse" for the G.O.P., pointing out that he had supported Nixon against Kennedy in 1960. The Governor wondered aloud whether Yorty had entered the "wrong party's primary." Reagan and Christopher, in true democratic tradition, sent Yorty messages of welcome...
...Eloquence. He will need more than glad glands. A January survey by the esteemed State Poll showed that the two foremost candidates for the Republican nomination were both widening their earlier leads over Brown. Actor Ronald Reagan was ahead by 4.4% , former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher by 15.1%. Brown brushed this aside with his wonted non-eloquence: "I've never been ahead in any poll, but when it gets right down to the 18th hole and you have to sink those long putts...
Giant-Killer. For Reagan, who is far ahead of Christopher in polls among Republican voters, the Governor had only mild contempt. Brown observed that in his last two races he had defeated "the giants," William Knowland and Richard Nixon, and that now "the Republican Party is not running its strongest candidate." Though he lightly twitted Reagan for lack of experience in public office and for being a Goldwater Republican, Brown concentrated on his own record. He claims credit for doubling the capacity of the state's higher-education system, improving the water supply and recreational facilities, providing welfare measures...