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If I have one qualification as a substitute for the usual and instructed occupant of this chair, L. Brent Bozell (toiling, as he is, for a seat in the Maryland legislature), it is that I have just come from a six-weeks fact-finding safari in the jungle of California politics. The impressions I have brought away are bewildering, the deductions ominous.

For, while in many states the Republican and conservative forces are resignedly apathetic, in California one can hear the death rattle of a politico-economic system that has lavishly served that lotus land. The owners and operators of the California economy are willing accomplices in a transfer of power to a laborite- ADA – Communoid state – within – a state. Far too many of the oil, shipping and industrial barons, natural allies of the renowned and principled William F. Knowland, are joining with the conspiratorial left, the Reuthers and Hoffas and trivial party factionalists such as Governor Goodwin J. (Goody) Knight to head off Bill Knowland at the pass.

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If I have one qualification as a substitute for the usual and instructed occupant of this chair, L. Brent Bozell (toiling, as he is, for a seat in the Maryland legislature), it is that I have just come from a six-weeks fact-finding safari in the jungle of California politics. The impressions I have brought away are bewildering, the deductions ominous.

For, while in many states the Republican and conservative forces are resignedly apathetic, in California one can hear the death rattle of a politico-economic system that has lavishly served that lotus land. The owners and operators of the California economy are willing accomplices in a transfer of power to a laborite- ADA – Communoid state – within – a state. Far too many of the oil, shipping and industrial barons, natural allies of the renowned and principled William F. Knowland, are joining with the conspiratorial left, the Reuthers and Hoffas and trivial party factionalists such as Governor Goodwin J. (Goody) Knight to head off Bill Knowland at the pass.