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...paper's appeal. Hence, the name change from Worker to World. "The term Worker was too exclusive," says Executive Editor Simon Gerson, who has been with the paper since 1931. "We want to reach students and white-collar workers as well." Though the Communist Party is the chief backer, the World has picked up support from sympathizers who, even if they reject Communism, share its opposition to racial inequality and the war in Viet...
...bleak as it seems. The small crowds and the languid receptions, say his strategists, are in part the result of a national mood of political disenchantment following the assassination of Robert Kennedy. They may also be the result of the summer doldrums. "Wait until Labor Day," advises one Humphrey backer, with perhaps more than a little wishful thinking. "When the people know for sure that the alternative is Richard Nixon, Humphrey is going to look mighty good to them...
...Americans tend to make rather heavier weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes...
...street fighting in Saigon. Two weeks ago, a malfunctioning rocket fired from a U.S. helicopter gunship smashed into a forward command post and in one shattering blow wiped out virtually the whole top level of Saigon's city administration, including four of Ky's most powerful backers. But by far the greatest damage was caused by President Thieu's gradual consolidation of power: without consultation, he fired Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a Ky man, and installed Tran Van Huong, whom the Vice President opposed. Police Chief Loan was replaced by a Thieu backer, and Thieu made similar...
Square is the right's latest answer to the left. Its chief financial backer is Patrick Frawley Jr., 44, who is board chairman of Eversharp, and a veteran right-wing crusader. Last fall he brought out his first publication, Twin Circle, a conservative Catholic weekly. His more recent venture is edited by Ed Butler, 34, a Schick public relations man who once debated Lee Harvey Oswald on the subject of Cuba-an encounter that was preserved on tape and has been made into a recording...