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Javits admits he is running "scared" and he might add "bewildered." Always taking a moderate-to-liberal position, Javits has knit together a far-flung constituency of largely Jewish voters in New York City and upstate conservatives who have found him safe on economic issues. As the ranking Republican on the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, he has played a key role in shepherding some of the major legislation of recent years through Congress...
...about to take over a country. But if it's a world in which we've worked out a relationship of reasonable restraint, or détente, with the other superpowers, then it won't matter to us who runs one of these countries in a far-flung area. Of course, something very close to us might still be important for political or security reasons. There may still be certain situations where U.S. interests -and I don't mean corporate interests, but fundamental political interests-can be adversely affected. In some of those cases it would...
...longstanding proposal for Pan Am to merge with Trans World Airlines. But neither company is enthusiastic, and there is some question whether two heavily indebted lines could combine. In any case, the eventual prospect is for a radically altered Pan Am, either through merger or considerable reduction of its far-flung routes-or both...
Still more evidence?15 volumes in all?poured from the House Judiciary Committee last week, covering the far-flung aspects of the impeachment proceedings. The evidence documented the misuse of the IRS to intimidate political opponents, the widespread surveillance of Government officials and newsmen and the raising of milk prices after the promise of a $2 million campaign contribution from dairymen. But the President seemed to be cleared of charges that he had forced a settlement of an antitrust suit against ITT in return for a pledge of up to $400,000 contribution to the G.O.P. National Convention. He tried...
...fact-filled thriller about a bad moneyman in London and how he uses a white mercenary to topple an African dictator and get the local platinum concession does not really get going until about page 384. The last 24 pages are almost worth waiting for, though, and the far-flung film sure to result will no doubt be galvanizing...