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...Grosso by Edward Albee, now running in New York City, and The Rights by Lee Blessing, now in Marietta, Georgia). Artistic director White offered one concession: no one under 18 would be admitted. White's position was bolstered by a donation of more than $6,000 from local gay businessmen, who lauded the theater's courage but chose to remain anonymous...
Trevor Manuel, the A.N.C.'s economic chief, asks the key question, "How much is all this going to cost?" White businessmen are likely to add, "And do you propose to pay for it by soaking the rich with big tax increases?" Manuel replies that the development program is relatively modest and can be financed at projected levels with a portion of the present government's budget. Further, he argues, some of it can be paid for by cracking down on corruption, cutting defense spending and collecting taxes more efficiently. "The kind of South Africa we can build," he says with...
...Democrats got their revenge when the press discovered and trumpeted that Nixon had a secret slush fund of $18,000 provided by California businessmen to help finance his activities. Nixon insisted that the fund was perfectly legal and was used solely for routine political expenses, but the smell of scandal thickened. At Eisenhower's urging, Nixon went before a TV audience estimated at 58 million with an impassioned defense of his honesty. "Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime we've got is honestly ours," he said. The only personal present he had received was "a little cocker...
Jerry Voorhis, a popular liberal Democrat, had won five straight elections in the 12th Congressional District east of Los Angeles, but a group of local businessmen hoped to unseat him. Nixon promised them "an aggressive and vigorous campaign." He began working up to 20 hours a day, making speeches about his war experiences, denouncing the New Deal. When Pat gave birth to their first daughter Patricia (Tricia), Nixon was out campaigning. (Confident of re-election, he stayed home when Julie was born two years later...
...business empire that encompasses the country's three largest private television networks, its largest department-store chain, and a host of other holdings in publishing, sports, real estate and advertising. He owes much of his dazzling political ascendancy to the fact that he is one of the few top businessmen untainted by Italy's bribes-for-contracts scandal, which during the past two years has implicated more than 5,000 leading statesmen and businessmen and left a vacuum at the heart of Italian politics...