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...knowledge, reports LIFE, Wolfson used the Justice's name in an attempt to stay out of prison. LIFE quotes a Government witness as saying that Fortas, while a member of the high court, had discussed the case against Wolfson during a visit to Wolfson's Florida horse farm in June 1966, and that Wolfson had used Fortas' name as reassurance to keep other conspirators from cooperating with Government prosecutors. LIFE did not charge, or claim to have any evidence, that Fortas had either helped Wolfson or been retained...
...letter denying a request by LIFE editors for a meeting to discuss the information uncovered by the magazine, Fortas wrote: "Since there has been no impropriety, or anything approaching it, in my conduct, no purpose would be served by any such meeting." Fortas acknowledged visiting the Wolfson farm and said that he "was present at a meeting of the Wolfson Family Foundation," but added: "I did not, of course, participate in any of Mr. Wolfson's business or legal affairs during that visit, nor have I done so at any time since I retired from law practice...
Those who stay on to work the farms have adopted modern methods and equipment that would have astonished the peasant farmer of only a few years ago. Last week the farmers of Brittany flocked to their provincial capital of Rennes for its 44th annual fair, France's largest agricultural exposition. Some 1,200 exhibitors from 21 nations displayed their wares at the pennant-draped fairgrounds, and they included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped...
...June. Even then, the Germans will weigh carefully any boost in the price of marks before their own national elections in September. Revaluation would lower the income of German farmers under the complicated Common Market price-support system, and Bonn's party leaders are worried about losing the farm vote. Yet a change in parity is almost assured by the vivid contrast between the mighty West German economy and the inflationprone French economy-menaced by excessive wage demands while handicapped by obsolete plants and an unfortunately anemic capital market. German Economics Minister Karl Schiller had hoped that his country...
Though Wolfson's personal fortune, once estimated at more than $75 million, has shriveled considerably, he still owns some $6,400,000 worth of Merritt-Chapman shares, a large horse-breeding farm near Ocala and an interest in a Jacksonville movie and television firm. Wolfson himself suffered a heart attack in 1966. His wife died last year of cancer. If both appeals fail, Wolfson still will have to serve a minimum of ten months...