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...part owner of some Muzak franchises and who lost to Stew Udall last year. Devoted to Goldwater, Matheson strongly opposes federal aid to education, minimum wage legislation and the welfare state. Says he: "People are being offered a mess of welfare pottage in exchange for their American birthright...
...also maintained that any gain in tax revenue from the building will not justify the breaking of a "sacred trust." "Shall we sell our birthright for a mess of potage?" he asked the congregation...
Voting Republican is an ancestral birthright in New Hampshire, but in this election the state might swallow its pride and elect some Democrats. If this happens, it will not come from a popular demand for reform or even for change, but from discord within the Republican party. While only unprecedented dissatisfaction could force reorganization of the state's outmoded governmental machinery, the election could bring a return of the two-party system...
President-elect Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 55, is a birthright member of the moneyed cluster of families that have run Panama since the republic was founded in 1903. He was by no means the choice of the nationalistic mob that last November riotously invaded the U.S.-run Canal Zone to plant the Panamanian flag there. Since the other two candidates were equally patrician and soberly bent on keeping Canal Zone sovereignty out of the election, the mob did not get a choice. Chiari's win was chiefly a response to the perennial Latin American urge to upset the incumbent...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In Birthright, an American raised in Czechoslovakia (Eli Wallach) has 90 days to prove his identity. Failure means deportation...