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...referred to in Washington as "the economic Kissinger." As the nation's foreign-trade spokesman, he is out to prove that "trade policy is foreign policy, trade policy is security policy, trade policy is domestic policy." After less than a year in the job, he is wielding more clout than any Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover. But, says Peterson: "I keep a portrait of Hoover hanging over the fireplace in my office to remind me of the hazards of ambition...
...Bond will from here. His refusal to leave Atlanta (which, last we forget, is surrounded by Georgia), and the recent Congressional victory of black preacher Andrew Young are factors which may force Bond into premature political eclipse. Black state senator Leroy Johnson is now said to wield for more clout than Bond with the state. Judging by his new book, Bond is as eloquent as ever, though his batting average as innovator and philosopher is relatively low, Still, there is promise of good things from Julian Bond. Although it is uncertain whether they will be enacted or merely published...
...Nixon machine was clearly out for a fight as it unleashed its political clout on tiny Rhode Island with all the ferocity of a saturation bombing Secretaries Morton, Rogers and Richardson all blitzed the state stumping for their old pal Chafee. Finally, the weekend before the election, Weapon X was unveiled as Richard Nixon himself came in to campaign for Chafee...
...Clout. It may be on the local level that self-interested money most distorts the democratic process, partly because a large contribution carries more clout there. A lawyer contributes to a district attorney's re-election because the D.A. can dismiss cases defended by his legal friends. Textbook suppliers seek contracts by donating to candidates for school boards or elective school administrators. Hoping to get the accounts, bankers back with cash the officials who determine where municipal or state funds will be kept. Such dealings look perfectly proper to Kansas City Banker Alex Barket, who asks: "If I contribute...
Beitz himself was knocked from the pinnacle in 1967 after the company plunged into a financial crisis, but he retains considerable clout as chairman of the supervisory board and head of the Krupp Foundation, which holds all the firm's shares and supports scientific and cultural projects. Even so, Krackow, who gets along well with Beitz, can be expected to assert himself as boss and insist that the company will undertake only financially sound ventures...