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...when flamboyant Anti-Corruption Crusader Ramón Magsaysay was killed in a 1957 plane crash. Though Garcia had pledged an "all-out war" against graft, during his administration there were nearly 30,000 recorded cases of corruption in the Philippines-a fact used by Diosclado Macapagal to help unseat Garcia in the 1961 elections...
FORMER Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein was defeated in his Long Island House race last November, but he is not an idle man. For the second time in four years, he is working to unseat an incumbent President...
...congressional delegation. Governor Ronald Reagan spent a minimum of $2,400,000 trying to increase his 1966 margin and carry Senator George Murphy in on his coattails. Murphy lost, but spent $1,500,000 of his own war chest trying. It took John Tunney $1,700,000 to unseat Murphy, while the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Jess Unruh, was financed with $1,100,000. Candidates vying for California's 38 House seats spent $5,300,000 in both primaries and the general election...
Last week the French government moved to unseat the elders. Under a bill drafted by the Cabinet for submission to the National Assembly -where its passage is practically assured-companies would be given two years to set some kind of mandatory retirement age. In firms failing to comply, all chief executives and other high-ranking managers would be required by law to step down at 65. Proprietors with controlling interest in their own firms would not be affected...
...YORK. For weeks, Democrat Arthur Goldberg's campaign had pleased only his opponents-and New York insomniacs. Attempting to unseat three-term Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the pompous and verbose Goldberg inspired only an apt characterization that is a campaign cliche: "Yesterday I spent a week with Arthur Goldberg." But things began to steam last week as the usually decorous Goldberg responded to a Rockefeller charge with the earthy observation that "Rockefeller is full of bullshit." Pardon? "You can quote me," fumed Goldberg to startled reporters. "I want you to quote...