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...increase in public-service jobs got a nod last week from Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. In a television interview, he favored a $1 billion program to create 200,000 jobs if the unemployment rate reaches 6% (it was 5.4% in August). Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is an ardent backer of an even bigger plan...
...party system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford. If the committee nominates McCarthy, he will be a "deadly serious" candidate, he promised, though he has happily never been deadly serious in his discourse for more than a few sentences. Eugene J. promptly demonstrated that by comparing his role to that of John theBaptist preceding Jesus...
...already told an inquiring Nixon aide last month that the Nixon memoirs would probably be worth $2 million, which would more than comfortably cover any legal costs. There are also the papers from the presidential years and earlier that could be sold. Finally, more than one major financial backer of the ex-President said last week privately that he would willingly contribute to a Nixon legal defense fund...
...figure predicted by California G.O.P. Representative John H. Rousselot. The Washington Post surveyed the House and reported that only 14 Republicans were willing to say that they opposed impeachment of Nixon, while 116 said that they were undecided. Moreover, Representative Joe D. Waggonner Jr. of Louisiana, a fervent Nixon backer, has told leaders that fewer than 30 Southerners (out of 121) plan to vote against impeachment...
Just who began the 1974 Philadelphia revolution is unclear. One important influence was the Rev. Edward G. Harris, co-dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., who issued an impassioned call in June for the immediate ordination of women. Another major backer, who delivered the sermon at the ordination, was Harvard Professor Charles V. Willie, a layman and a black who is vice president of the church's House of Deputies...