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Arlen Specter, 37, entered Philadelphia's mayoralty campaign last spring with overwhelming advantages. He was already well known and popular as an able investigator and prosecutor. On the hustings he demonstrated the intelligence, presence and reformist approach that had elected him district attorney in 1965-the first Republican to win a major city wide office in 14 years. Democratic Mayor James Tate, 57, bore the triple burden of a mediocre record, a ponderous personality and a divided party. But instead of pleading nolo contendere, Tate has doggedly chipped away at Specter's seemingly unassailable early lead...
...might be less dissatisfied if the law schools could do even more than they presently do to offer a degree in applied social science for those who want to understand and to change institutions. The major law schools offer a home to a number of faculty members with a reformist bent, who see the law as perhaps the principal process for channeling and controlling the fierce and explosive energies of our population. Some of these men have worked on the urban frontier, some on the international frontier, some in civil rights and civil liberties, others in labor or conservation...
Inside Joke. Yet Bennett, senior Republican on the Standards and Conduct Committee, which investigated Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted...
Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...
...Series. Shapp's reformist zeal led to the derisive nickname of "Batman"-but many voters thought a crusader, caped or not, was just what Pennsylvania's tired Democratic Party needed. With the returns in, Democratic Senator Joseph Clark, who had backed Casey, admitted that the machine was "obsolescent, if not obsolete." Shapp, the first Jew to be nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania, was already gearing up for November. "We've won the pennant," he told supporters. "Now we go after the World Series...