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From the start of the ballot counting, the cocksure little Democrat led Incumbent Republican Norris Poulson in Los Angeles' "nonpartisan" mayoralty election. But when Sam Yorty, 51, hung on to win an upset 16,000-vote victory last week, there was precious little celebrating among California's Democratic leaders. Indeed, most of them blanched in dismay -for in a state filled with dissident Democrats, Yorty is perhaps the most dissident...
Open to Argument. Arriving in California at age 17 with $80 in his pocket, Nebraska-born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even...
Knowing when he was licked, Poulson last week conceded a scant three hours after the polls closed. Yorty's triumph changed a lot of California political equations. As mayor of Los Angeles, Sam Yorty's influence would have to be reckoned with. But how would he use that in fluence? Would he support Richard Nixon if Nixon were to run for Governor next year against Pat Brown? Or might he try to unseat Brown himself? Nobody knew, least of all Yorty. But one thing is certain: in one way or another. Mayor Sam Yorty will...
After reading your May 5th article on "Featherbedding on the Pads," I think a more appropriate title would be Swindle. I wonder sometimes how the cartoonists can still show Uncle Sam wearing clothes...
Members of the Harvard-Yale squad that will meet Oxford-Cambridge June 13 in the Stadium have been announced. One spot in the high hurdles is still to be decided among three Yalies, and the shot put places will go to two of the Harvard threesome. Beckwith and Elis Sam Strelbert and Bill Flippin will be competing for the two high jump positions at the IC4A...