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...Less Clout. As a slight concession to the big states, the conservatives agreed to give a bonus delegate for each Republican Governor or Senator elected as well as another delegate if at least one-half of the state's congressional delegation is Republican. While the big states are unreliably Republican in presidential elections, they consistently put Republicans in lesser offices...
...most serious defections occurred. Eugene Klein, chairman of the board of National General, an insurance and entertainment company based in Los Angeles, announced that he was supporting the President for reelection. His decision sent shock waves through the already demoralized Democratic Party, since Klein has considerable clout with other Jews. "I used to have trouble finding any supporters when I walked into the Hillcrest Country Club," says Taft Schreiber, executive vice president of show-biz conglomerate MCA and a major Nixon fund raiser. "Now it's like everyone has had a revelation. People come rushing...
...fact, high-cost, highly technical, curative system. We have done this to the exclusion of developing services with a high ratio of benefits to cost, such as rehabilitation, health education, preventive medicine, family planning services and the like. This has got to change." With the foundation's clout, disposing $50 million a year in income from its $800 million endowment, Knowles is the man to initiate change. He wants to use foundation-financed projects to determine how much the consumer gets for his health dollar, and of what quality, and how he can get more and better. Knowles believes...
...latter-day Rasputins driving the values of currencies up and down by ruthless manipulation. British Laborite George Brown once contemptuously dubbed speculators "the gnomes of Zurich." President Nixon last year damned them for "waging an all-out war on the American dollar." Who are the speculators? And how much clout do they wield in world money markets...
...book indexing what number to dial for what complaint, ranging from noisy jackhammers to flooded basements (it runs to 134 pages). By happy chance, the group's founder, Mrs. Ellen Straus, is the wife of the owner of a local radio station (WMCA) and gets added clout by airing the group's most poignant complaints on her husband's radio station. The essence of the group's service is that it follows up on a complaint, calls back the city department concerned to see if anything has been done. Says Mrs. Straus: "If the complaint hasn...