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...Mellon, 61, only son of Uncle Andy, who is the single biggest shareholder in the Mellon enterprises - principally Alcoa, Carborundum Co., Koppers Co. and Gulf Oil. His duties as president of the National Gallery and director of the Bollingen Foundation (grants to scholars in the humanities) and the Old Dominion Foundation (education, the arts, mental health and conservation) seemed more imperative than any family reunion...
...passé prohibitions: Virginia's ancient predilection for pay-as-you-go budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an end to racial segregation in jails and prisons. Has the Old Dominion gone liberal? Decidedly not, insists the chief architect of change, Byrd-Democrat Mills Godwin, 53, Governor since 1966. "It's realism...
...Look at it one way : all war is wrong. The idea of sending men to shoot other men is unthinkable. It follows that we were wrong to fight the American Revolution. Britain has now freed most of its former colonies. We could have had dominion status long ago without bloodshed. Or was it right and glorious to fight for our own freedom, but now unjust and immoral to fight for the freedom of others...
...that," he says. His preference for legislation over political organizing reflects his view of himself as a lawyer rather than a politician; of course, it also testifies to the Byrd Organization's complete control of state Democratic machinery. Although Spong clearly represents a new political movement in the Old Dominion, National Committeeman Sydney Kellam, who has long been the Organization's chief strategist, still symbolizes Virginia Politics to Lyndon Johnson and his aides...
...America ($19 billion), Chase Manhattan ($15.76 billion) and First National City ($15.2). And it shapes up as an even more formidable financial force when the subsidiary operations of the three partners are included; Barclays Bank, for example, holds a 51% interest in far-flung Barclays Bank D.C.O. (for Dominion, Colonial & Overseas...