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These are the findings of a national telephone sampling of 1,004 registered voters conducted for TIME on Aug. 2 and 3 by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. The poll shows that if Democrats were given a choice now, 58% would pick Kennedy and 30% Carter as their nominee. The Senator also would win a three-way race that included California Governor Jerry Brown. The outcome, as indicated by the poll: Kennedy 49%, Carter 21%, Brown 19%. The support for Kennedy ranges broadly among all types of Democratic voters...
...from French intelligence. They set themselves up as "co-presidents" and obligingly declared that Denard and his men were merely visiting "technicians." But the technicians had ideas of their own. Efficient mercenary "advisers" were assigned to the army, police, post office and telephone company and in every instance took firm, though unofficial, command...
...Wilmot is a hustling, self-made millionaire. Wearing one of his entrepreneurial hats, he is the principal owner of Wilmorite Inc., a Rochester construction and real estate firm. Elsewhere Wilmot is best known as the chairman and chief stockholder of Page Airways Inc.; it does a brisk business (1977 revenues: $59 million) operating terminals for private planes at nine busy locations, including Washington's National and Dulles airports. But what made Page special and Wilmot very rich was the firm's role as the worldwide sales agent for Grumman Corp.'s twin-jet Gulfstream...
...navigation and communications systems in Gulfstreams accused Page of trying to take over its lucrative business by, among other tactics, bribing one of its executives with $30,000 and the use of a Jaguar sports car. Last October Page was ordered by a U.S. court to pay the Texas firm $9 million in damages for trying to monopolize the Gulfstream outfitting business. Page is appealing that decision, but testimony at the trial about other Page activities has led to more trouble for Wilmot...
Wilmot helped organize Democratic fundraising dinners in the mid-1970s, when Robert Strauss headed the Democratic National Committee and funneled legal work on his aviation and real estate interests to Strauss's Dallas law firm. When Strauss left the board of Columbia Pictures to join the Carter Administration last year, Wilmot took Strauss's seat...