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...Senators and key staff members, like a senior class on graduation day. Only four of the committee's seven members were present: Chairman Sam Ervin, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Joseph M. Montoya and Daniel K. Inouye. Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr. was home in Tennessee; Herman E. Talmadge was busy elsewhere; and Edward J. Gurney was beset by troubles of his own (see story page...
...Ridder chain was built up by the heirs of Herman Ridder, a German immigrant who acquired a German-language daily in New York in 1890; though Ridder owns the New York Journal of Commerce, its other properties are located in Western states. Says Bernard H. Ridder Jr., 57, who would continue to run the papers as a Knight-Ridder subsidiary: "The merger logic is simple. We have a good geographical fit, and there's no conflict in circulation...
Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., 36, entered politics at the top in 1968 by challenging Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge. He lost the primary but carried Atlanta by 6,000 votes, within a year was elected the city's vice mayor. A hulking (280 lbs.), courtly, articulate attorney who graduated from Morehouse College at 18, the well-connected Jackson last year won Atlanta's mayoralty to become the first black leader of a major Southern city. Popular with both the black and white business communities in Atlanta, he is likely to run again for the Senate...
...Herman Badillo, 44, the only Puerto Rican member of the U.S. House, represents a South Bronx district that consists largely of families with annual incomes close to or below the official poverty mark ($4,550 for an urban family of four). An orphan who came to the mainland at eleven, Badillo earned degrees in accounting and law, in 1965 won a tight race for Bronx borough president. A Democrat, he was first elected to Congress in 1970. He has also run unsuccessfully in two mayoral primaries, and since his real interest is New York City, he can be expected...
...Harvard contingent, however, didn't go it alone. In keeping with the seven day celebration, handyman Everett recruited two of the finest trombone artists playing today: Phil Wilson, trombone teacher at Boston's Berklee College of Music and Woody Herman band soloist in the sixties, and Carl Fontana, one of the best trombonists in the West, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands of the fifties...