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President Nixon's representatives were Presidential Aide Leonard Garment, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Nancy Hanks and USIA Director Frank Shakespeare-like everyone else, they cheered and clapped. Charlie Chaplin stood at a microphone, waving and miming a little. Then he became very serious. "This is my renaissance," he said. "I'm being born again. It's easy for you, but it's very difficult for me to speak tonight, because I feel very emotional. However, I'm glad to be amongst so many friends. Thank...
...snob in America. But he shows no faith in his material. Just when he should be putting it all together, he takes it all apart, hurrying on to play a stand-up comedian in print - he becomes an anything-for-a-laugh gagster, spouting Mafia jokes, even a little garment industry humor...
...Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of Founder Abe Cahan and then City Editor Rogoff, it helped break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and led the city's garment workers into the I.L.G.W.U., meanwhile advising Jewish mothers to keep their kinderle supplied with clean handkerchiefs. The paper boasted a circulation of 225,000 in 1922, but reduced immigration and the assimilation of earlier arrivals gradually lowered it to 41,000 today. In 1964, Rogoff stepped down after 14 years...
...office of Attorney General John Mitchell dropped further federal investigation of the incident. Two nonradical students got up a petition calling on President Nixon to reverse Mitchell's decision. They gathered more than 10,000 signatures in just eleven days and carried the petition to Presidential Aide Leonard Garment in Washington; they have little hope of success...
...others in the running-John Lindsay, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and Republican Representative Paul McCloskey-only Yorty has received a number of substantial individual gifts. His main supporter is his campaign manager, Sam Bretzfield, a Los Angeles garment manufacturer. Charles Luckman, the architectural mogul, is another big contributor. Lindsay, on the other hand, is running out of pocket and wooing New York moneyed liberal Republicans; he has deserted their party, but Lindsay aides are still counting on their support...