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...Democrats for Nixon organization, McGovern said snappishly: "Does it really surprise anybody that those Texas oil billionaires are for Nixon?" He plans to reveal soon his own committee of Republicans for McGovern. Some women even screamed as McGovern walked through headquarters of the Aetna Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn., and the candidate looked elated...
...critical of his economic policies, often claiming that he has failed to check inflation. A greater liability may be what half of the panel consider Nixon's lack of credibility; even four out of ten of his backers complain of this. One of them, Carol Terry, a Plainville, Conn., housewife, says: "He hasn't informed us enough to keep us abreast of what's going on." A minority view is that of Hotel Desk Clerk Mrs. Irene Wells of Pinellas Park, Fla., who declares: "Some things it doesn't help us to know...
Died. Max Theiler, 73, South African-born virologist who as a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation won the 1951 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his success in developing a vaccine against yellow fever; of lung cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Died. W.T. (for William Thomas) Grant, 96, founder and honorary chairman of the retail chain that bears his name; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Grant opened the first of his "250 stores" in a Lynn, Mass., Y.M.C.A. in 1906, and immediately specialized in high-turnover products priced between the nickel and dime items of F.W. Woolworth's and the 500 minimum then common in department stores. Nearly 50 years ago, he decided that the business needed professional managers rather than a merchant at the top, and he gradually withdrew from active participation to devote most of his time...