Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Replay. At first the election looked like a rerun of 1969. Once again, Bradley, now 55, faced Incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63. Once again, Yorty played on white fears. Once again, there were predictions of a last-minute backlash that would throw the election to Yorty. But this time the backlash did not develop, and Bradley defeated Yorty by a surprising...
...Sam Yorty, on the other hand, had lost much of his following. He had stayed in office for twelve lackluster years largely by entertaining Angelenos, but they had begun to tire of the show. In his last term, he spent one out of every four days outside the city. Most of the time he was overseas, garnering publicity and decorations, and his wanderings had become a joke. Cracked Bradley: "People ask why Yorty doesn't go to Watts. But the mayor has an answer. He says that just as soon as Pan Am flies there...
Directed by SAM PECKINPAH Screenplay by RUDOLPH WURLITZER...
...story that has been told many times over: how Pat Garrett shot down Billy the Kid, who was his friend. It has never been told so strangely, however, with such a stern sense of beauty and of fate, as it is here by Sam Peckinpah. He is one of the most prodigious of all American film makers, and perhaps also one of the most prodigal...
...self-assurance may be justified, for Dean is the only major Watergate witness who is both able and willing to tell a lot. He has been using that position to bargain for his own safety from prosecution, an effort in which he has earned at least some support. Senator Sam Ervin's committee has requested limited immunity for Dean so that he can testify. But the Justice Department so far has refused to go along, on the grounds that it may want to prosecute him later. Last week in an interview, Dean made a persuasive case for being heard...