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Harris' biggest asset has been his courage in espousing liberal causes that are often anathema to his conservative Oklahoman constituents. As a member of the Kerner Commission, which investigated black-ghetto rioting in 1967, Harris, son of a Mississippi-born sharecropper, was the principal advocate of the commission's strongly worded condemnation of white racism and its demands for programs to wipe out Negro slums. "If I can come to see these things," Harris is fond of saying, "anyone...
...Wasp's moral authority, it is clearly waning, but he still has an inimitable asset: the inner security inherited from his Protestant background and his expansive American experience. "If you are a Wasp, you have the confidence that the Establishment is yours and that you are on the top," says Novelist Herbert Gold. "There is the feeling that the love of a horsy woman comes to you as a birthright," Hollywood may be filled mainly with non-Wasps, but they still usually take Wasp names and act out Wasp fantasies in films. In Jewish novels, the central character...
...small upper-class elite could afford a higher education, but nearly 500,000 young Italians are now enrolled and overcrowding is becoming explosive. Many priests oppose their bishops on the issue of contraception, partly because the newly urbanized faithful can scarcely afford the large families that were an asset on the farm. As more and more women take jobs, they increasingly demand equal rights, including repeal of the old law that prescribes prison for adulterous women...
None of Wall Street's brash young managers of "gogo" mutual funds have gone farther faster than 36-year-old Frederick S. Mates. His $32 million Mates Investment Fund has risen 153% in per-share asset value since the beginning of 1968, the highest growth rate of any fund. A onetime English teacher who learned how money talks in 13 years as a highly successful market analyst and big-account broker, Mates is truly the personification of self-confidence. On one wall of his office, he keeps a framed parody of an old Wall Street slogan: "Invest, Then Investigate...
...fense like duckpins." Some scouts say Kwalick will have to learn a bit more about blocking to become a real pro star. Sellers, the top college receiver this season, with 86 receptions, is a swift, shifty end already running the kind of pass patterns the pros prize. His strongest asset: "a complete disregard for personal welfare when going after the ball." A close runner-up is Jim Seymour, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs. Though a few pro teams question his speed, one scout lauds his "knack of keeping his eyes on the defender and on the ball...