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Alabama's George Wallace has insisted all along that he will be a third-party presidential candidate only if the Democrats and Republicans nominate candidates whose views he opposes. Last week Wallace could wait no longer. With his blessing, right-wing California Publicist William K. Shearer, 36, launched the American Independent Party, with plans to organize state committees nationwide...
...first Prime Minister, finally came into his own last January when "Busta," aging (83) and infirm, handed over the reins of his Jamaica Labor Party, which Sangster guided to victory in February's elections; of a brain hemorrhage; in Montreal. His successor is Union Leader Hugh Lawson Shearer, 43, appointed by the Governor General after a party caucus...
Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...CLEAN Inc. (California League Enlisting Action Now), a Los Angeles-based lobby founded by San Diego's conservative Republican State Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes, a retired Navy chaplain who argues that smut has brought about a U.S. "moral crisis." The organization's campaign director is William K. Shearer, a top tactician in putting across the now-voided housing initiative (Proposition 14). Says Shearer: "I always liked to think of myself as the most conservative man in San Diego County...
Blatant Display. Shearer & Co. not only claim that U.S. smut peddlers now gross $2 billion a year, but they calculate that "about 60% of the lewd paperbacks and magazines circulating today in the U.S. are published by California firms," three-quarters of whose products "fall into the hands of teenagers under 18." In January, for example, Los Angeles Publisher Milton J. Luros (estimated annual sales: $6 million) and eight associates were convicted on 147 counts of violating anti-obscenity laws by deluging Iowa with six smutty paperbacks and 14 nudist magazines. Although 250 obscenity cases are now pending in California...