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Ray Briem dies at 82; all-night radio host in L.A.
Ray Briem, the longtime KABC-AM talk show host who ruled all-night radio for nearly three decades with his phone calls to the famous and the quirky and his opinionated banter slamming liberals, championing conservative causes and extolling the big-band...
Tags: Insomnia, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Harry James, Radio
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Politicians' styles often a matter of debate
Los Angeles TimesIt's not unusual for politicians' clothes and grooming to become fodder for public scrutiny. Some analysts say Republican Richard M. Nixon lost the first televised presidential debate — and ultimately the election — to Democrat John F....Tags: Fashion Trends, John McCain, Sarah Palin, John F. Kennedy, Hillary Clinton
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1980 Republican National Convention
FrameworkThe 1980 Republican National Convention nominates Ronald Reagan for president and George H.W. Bush for vice president.... -
After 4.1 earthquake, aftershocks keep Yorba Linda shaking
L.A. NOWTwo small aftershocks have been reported in Yorba Linda, shortly after a 4.1 earthquake hit Yorba Linda at 1:31 p.m. on Wednesday.... -
1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles
FrameworkGoing into the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was the front-runner, but did not have a lock on the nomination.... -
The 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign
FrameworkOn July 11, 1952 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Richard Nixon were nominated for President and Vice-President at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. They went on to beat Democratic ticket of Gov. Adlai Stevenson II and Sen. John Sparkman.... -
Wilbur K. Woo dies at 96; a leader of L.A.'s Chinese community
Wilbur K. Woo, a banker and produce merchant who first immigrated to Los Angeles in 1921, when he was 5, and decades later became an influential leader of the city's Chinese American community, has died. He was 96. Woo, who also worked to strengthen...
Tags: Banking, Elections, Pneumonia, China, World War II (1939-1945)
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Darrell Royal dies at 88; noted University of Texas football coach
Darrell Royal, the legendary Texas coach who led the Longhorns to three national college football titles and 11 Southwest Conference titles in a 20-year tenure that ended in 1976, died Wednesday in Austin after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, the...
Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Canadian Football, Alzheimer's Disease, ABC (tv network), Football
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Russell Train dies at 92; conservationist was early head of EPA
Russell Train, an important American conservationist and former tax court judge who helped craft some of the nation's early and enduring environmental laws, has died. He was 92. Train, who led the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s, died Monday...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, FBI, Columbia University
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For Mitt Romney, the election hinges on the middle class
TAMPA, Fla. — The conventional wisdom is that this week's Republican National Convention needs to make Mitt Romney more "likable" — to replace his image as a frosty billionaire with the warmer (and, friends say, more accurate) picture of a...
Tags: Polls, Primaries, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Equestrian
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Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89; former king of Cambodia
Former King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, an unpredictable and crafty political survivor whose fortunes were entwined with U.S. military involvement in Indochina, died Monday of natural causes in Beijing, where he had undergone medical treatment,...
Tags: Government, Beijing (China), FBI, U.S. Military, Diabetes
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Eugene Genovese dies at 82; leftist historian turned conservative
Eugene D. Genovese became one of the most notorious radical intellectuals in the country in 1965 when he addressed an all-night teach-in at Rutgers University on the Vietnam War. "I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory. I welcome it,"...
Tags: Slavery, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, College of William and Mary, Political Systems, Religion and Belief
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