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...peppery 49, Allbritton is a Texas Democrat who has no love for Turncoat Republican John Connally, and was a major backer of the presidential ambitions of Senator Edmund Muskie-partly, friends say, because he has a hankering to swing some weight in big-time politics. Apparently with that ambition in mind, he tried to buy the archconservative Houston Chronicle in 1972, but was turned down because the owners considered him too liberal...
Despite its improving relations with the Arabs, the U.S. has been able to maintain its traditional ties to Israel, a feat that it has been struggling to achieve for years. What is more, American initiatives have cost the Soviet Union, the Arabs' military, political and economic backer since the mid-'50s, prestige and clout in the Middle East, although the Soviets continue to have a major role in the region (see box page...
...most fascinating part of Don Nixon's testimony involved not Mitchell but Richard Nixon. Although he is now a vice president of the Marriott Corp., the hotel and restaurant chain founded by J. Willard Marriott, friend and financial backer of the President, Don Nixon has a history of stumbling into embarrassing business deals. During his rambling, flustered performance in court, he revealed just how carefully his brother has kept him at arm's length from the White House. Said he: "John Mitchell is a man that I was delegated-that designated that I should talk to him about...
...while, PIN united an unlikely assortment of volunteers in the give-it-all dedication that a crisis often inspires. A prominent backer of the Seattle plan, Washington Secretary of State A. Ludlow Kramer, took over as temporary director of PIN. Offers of warehouse space, trucks and food donations poured in from private businesses and public agencies. At the Hearst Corp. offices in downtown San Francisco, a bank of 20 telephones jangled constantly as citizens called in to volunteer help in handing out food; a reporter counted 32 calls in less than a minute...
Recently Pollack directed the SEC'S investigation of Financier C. Arnholt Smith, Nixon's longtime friend and financial backer, who has been charged with fleecing $100 million from the stockholders of a San Diego-based conglomerate, Westgate-California Corp. Pollack did not know about the Nixon connection until he read about it in the newspapers when the investigation was well under way. Casually, Pollack asked his staff: "Is this guy the C. Arnholt Smith?" Told that he was, Pollack simply shrugged and went back to work...