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...years ago, Clayton McKenzie, 37, began his venture after realizing that the high cost of buying cows was limiting business for many dairymen. Local banks normally charge an initial down payment of 30% on a loan for the purchase of a cow, while farmers renting one lay out only 6% of the cost. After starting with a two-man operation, McKenzie last year needed a bank of computers and 30 employees to keep track of around 50,000 head leased to farmers in 25 states. Sales totaled $20 million...
...case that continues to haunt John Connally-despite his acquittal-was a complex web of accusations. Watergate prosecutors investigating President Nixon's campaign finances began to concentrate in October of 1973 on donations by dairymen. By August of 1974, the Government had amassed enough evidence to win a Washington grand jury indictment charging Connally on five counts for having allegedly accepted $10,000 from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative...
...relayed to the Associated Milk Producers, said Jacobsen, who was an attorney for the coop, it gave him $10,000, which he delivered to Connally in two $5,000 installments later that year. But Connally got nervous, according to Jacobsen, when a Watergate grand jury began looking into the dairymen's contributions. Jacobsen said that he and Connally met in an Austin hotel and concocted a cover story. If they were ever questioned about the money, said Jacobsen, they would both maintain that while it had been offered to Connally, he had refused it and Jacobsen...
...similar conservative positions. Reagan may be handicapped most by having lost last time. Connally's biggest liability remains the fact that he was once a Democrat and was once close to Nixon. In addition, although he was found innocent in 1975 of accepting $10,000 in bribes from dairymen, there was little doubt that he had helped them get higher price supports in the hope, if not a pledge, that they would support Nixon...
...urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell a Congressman, 'we've got 600 members in your district'-that's different...