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CALIFORNIA, June 4. The 174-vote package, to be given away on a winner-take-all basis, is the biggest prize of the primary season. The beneficiary, however, is difficult to predict. "There are," says Pierre Salinger, "too many Democratic parties in California." Among the factions within factions, there is no viable Johnson organization. After protracted, ludicrous bickering-to the point where two Ronald Reagan supporters were contending for places on the Johnson slate-a roster of presidential supporters was finally formed. McCarthy, as elsewhere, enjoys support from many old Stevensonians and New Lefters, but Kennedy may attract some...
...that "the Swedes have a natural prejudice against black people," he presented himself to the American embassy in Stockholm and asked for transportation back to his unit in West Germany, where he faced the possibility of a court-martial and up to five years in an Army stockade. "The biggest thing," he admitted on arrival in Frankfurt, "is I love America and I don't want to run away from its problems." Three other defectors, who apparently shared Jones's views, also turned themselves in to U.S. authorities. By week's end, the Karl Marx Cafe...
...last-minute turnabout was the result of a campaign by B.U. students to portray Gordon, who is one of Boston's biggest landowners, as a profiteer in slum property. The campus newspaper raked up a 1933 real-estate-rackets charge against Gordon (he was never convicted); student leaders signed a letter to Boston newspapers claiming that his dealings were "exploitive and discriminatory." Actually, Gordon's real estate holdings, which were once extensive in slum neighborhoods, now consist mostly of profitable downtown office buildings; only a few of the 100 or so apartments he owns are in the city...
From Broom to Pencil. Such modern techniques, combined with fast reaction to loan requests and an unusual willingness to take chances, have pushed Bradesco from nowhere 25 years ago into a commanding position as Brazil's biggest private bank-second in size to the federal government's bank. It now has deposits of $175 million, serves 1,200,000 customers and claims 174,000 shareholders, including all of its 8,064 employees...
Such major-league conglomerates as ITT, Litton and Textron are veterans on the playing fields of corporate acquisition. But last week's biggest merger news came from a relative rookie...