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Candidates in Cambridge elections run as individuals or with the unsolicited endorsement of non-partisan groups like the CCA. There are no formal party affiliations on the municipal level...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...
...Neill: "Fear has spread over Ohio. There is use of power to instill fear. I deplore the thought that Ohio citizens should be afraid." Roared Bricker: "If ever there was a clearcut call for non-partisan action, it was for protection of the union rank and file against the abuses of labor racketeers, the embezzlers, the professional goons, the Hoffas and the Becks." So saying, O'Neill and Bricker plumped unequivocally for a hotly debated Ohio right-to-work bill on next month's ballot. Explained a G.O.P. strategist: "We're taking a chance on it helping...
...Council's procedure in withdrawing from N.S.A. without consulting interested groups on campus. But as an organizational entity the U.N. Council should not have taken a stand on N.S.A. itself--whatever the personal feelings of its members. In taking such stands it forfeits the right to call itself a "non-partisan political organization." A. M. Colt, Sheldon A. Vincent, Members of the Executive Board, Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council...
...convention dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source of his success: an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Democrats and old Non-partisan Leaguers who crossed party lines...