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James Harvey should have quit while he was ahead. The unemployed Jacksonville construction worker was offered $1,500 by the Adolph Coors Co. last July after he claimed to have discovered a dead mouse in a 16-oz. can of the firm's beer. Harvey refused, demanding as much as $50,000 compensation for being subjected to an unexpected drinking companion...
...said Israel should not "give up one inch" of territory to neighboring Arab nations until it receives assurances of peace. He said World War II and much of Adolph Hitler's campaign to annihilate the Jewish race could have been thwarted by greater military preparedness in the West...
This is not a tale of rags to riches. The Goldschmidts, like their neighbors and relatives the Rothschilds, had been prosperous merchant bankers in Frankfurt since the 16th century. When Jimmy's grandfather Adolph came to London in 1895, he came as a millionaire and bought a mansion off Park Lane. Jimmy's father Frank, who changed his name to Goldsmith, went to Oxford, fought at Gallipoli, sat in Parliament, but found London's wartime anti-German emotions so painful that he moved to France, married a French wife and prospered in the hotel business. He lived in a world...
HARVARD STUDENTS did themselves proud last week. By allowing William K. Coors, the controversial chairman of the Adolph Coors Brewing Company, to address and defend himself before a filled Science Center lecture hall, students in general and campus activists in particular went a long way toward repairing Harvard's damaged reputation as a bastion of free speech and an exemplar of the open exchange of ideas...
...degree to which the Coors are ultraconservative is a subject for debate. Joseph Coors' charitable contributions as well as those of the Adolph Coors Foundation have long supported right-wing organizations such as the Heritage Foundation. But for all the conservative think tanks and policy groups that the Coors family funds, they provide even more money to schools, hospitals and community service centers...