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Which is the real Jess Unruh? They all are. He is the former Texas farm boy who at 18 hitchhiked to California with $5 in his pocket and became speaker of the state assembly at 39. At least a part of "Big Daddy" Unruh was once a paradigm of the cynical and, to his enemies, sinister political boss. Lyndon-esque in his legislative mastery, he held an almost singlehanded rule over the California assembly from 1961 to 1969, when the Republicans at last gained a majority...
Dubious Victory. One state that Nixon and the country will be watching closely for guidance is California, where last week's primary set up clear-cut liberal-conservative contests. Republican Governor Ronald Reagan was unopposed for renomination. He will now face Jess Unruh, a liberal Democrat who easily defeated Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a maverick and a hawkish conservative. In the Senate races, two challengers on the left were defeated when Republican Incumbent George Murphy and Democratic Congressman John Tunney won nomination...
...have publicly taken issue with Nixon are Hickel and George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Both are ex-Governors accustomed to command, and both are frustrated by Nixon's isolation behind the palace guard of Assistants John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Romney told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook: "I think the key question that the President is going to have to decide is whether he is to have White House staff people basically responsible in policy areas and playing leadership roles, or whether the Cabinet officers are going to do it." Romney has strong feelings on that point...
EVERYWHERE in the U.S. black and white perceptions of each other are distorted by fear and ignorance and resentment. Yet the pattern varies with the setting. To explore the nuances of black-white relations against different backgrounds, TIME Correspondents Jess Cook and Paul Hathaway toured a fast-changing area of a Northeastern city, a Deep South county with a heavy black majority, and a middle-sized bastion of Middle America...
...meaningless. Astronomers were also nettled by the way that NASA released its information. Ignoring the scientific community, the space agency has to date published its conclusions only in a press release that was issued on the first anniversary of OAO-II's launch. "Remember," said Caltech's Jess Greenstein, "you're studying a public relations report, not a scientific paper...