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...Jewish. He is apparently trying, however. In a recent interview he traced his family tree and said, "My ancestors may have been Jewish. We're really not sure." Rockefeller has also done well in the past among black voters, but this time a highly regarded black state senator, Basil Paterson, is Goldberg's running mate...
Dove Formation. Goldberg's victory was not the only important decision the Democratic voters rendered. His running mate for Lieutenant Governor will be Basil A. Paterson, 44, a highly regarded state senator and the first black to run for so high a state office on a major party ticket. Though challenged by a white town supervisor from suburban Long Island, Paterson ran far better than Goldberg, winning 69% of the vote. In a four-man contest for the U.S. Senate nomination to oppose Republican Incumbent Charles Goodell, an expensive barrage of polished television advertising turned obscurity into victory...
...Died. Basil Liddell Hart, 74, eminent British military writer whose radical theory of tank warfare was adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...
...California liberals, he failed to join fellow bishops in opposing efforts to repeal the state's fair-housing laws in 1964. The Immaculate Heart nuns were barred from archdiocesan schools because Mclntyre disapproved of their internal reforms. While Mclntyre was saying midnight Mass last Christmas in St. Basil's Church on Wilshire Boulevard, a group of Mexican-Americans called Catolicos por la Raza (Catholics for the People) staged a demonstration outside to protest the building's alleged construction cost of $3,000,000. Mclntyre later likened the demonstrators to "the rabble" that crucified Christ...
Broad Categories. As honorary president of The Hague meeting, March of Dimes' President Basil O'Connor acclaimed "the beginnings of achievement in a worldwide, concerted effort of science-the first in history-to improve the quality of human life at birth." But he went on to warn: "This means that you must also be prepared to protect the human heritage from a possible proliferation of defective genes. It is humane to save the lives of sick children. It is neither humane nor morally defensible to permit the cause of their illness to be perpetuated if that...