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There seemed slight likelihood of a smash political success. The speech was scheduled for Monday, a stay-at-home night most everywhere. The scene was to be Dodger Stadium (more popularly known as Chavez Ravine) - yet every properly baseball-batty Angeleno should have been glued to a television set watching the opening game of the showdown series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals in St. Louis. Thus, organizers of the Barry Goldwater rally had been having Technicolor night mares of rows of pink, aqua and maize stadium seats - all empty...
...this is Beverly Hills!" says a shocked Angeleno banker...
Last week the red-faced Times said that its Christmas Eve visitor - who proved to be Thomas Lockyer Graeff, a 30-year-old Angeleno who is petitioning to get his name legally changed to Jesus Christ II -had not come back to reclaim...
...Angeles' annual Las Madrinas debutante ball, 33 debs were thrown into the maw of Old Angeleno society. Few father-daughter couples were as dashingly smooth, however, as the old hoofer him self, Fred Astaire (who hates to wear tails), and winsome...
Ticks & Politics. "The difference between Harry and Norman," says one old-time Angeleno, "is that Harry sat in his office and ruled this city like a king. Norman doesn't rule; he isn't interested in ruling. What he wants is to become an institution." Yet in a town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times...