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...many of the convention's best moments, however, came while television looked the other way. All three networks missed seeing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller set off a near fistfight when he grabbed a North Carolina delegate's Reagan placard. While New York Senator Jacob Javits delivered the week's lone liberal address, and Reagan delegates broke into noisy disapproval, NBC Anchor Men John Chancellor and David Brinkley contemplated a souvenir towel from the 1968 convention. With few thoughtful exceptions in the anchor booths-ABC's George McGovern on the vice presidency, CBS'S brisk Bill...
Without the moderates, Mathias believes, the Republicans will become more and more a splinter party. Senate colleagues like New York's Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case, Illinois' Charles Percy and Massachusetts' Ed Brooke-men who win elections in large, industrial, Democratic states -help to keep the G.O.P. a major party with a broad base. If the moderates sink, speculates Mathias with obvious concern, they may drag the two-party system down with them. Some Republicans snort at such a gloomy prediction; they wonder why Mathias has not cleared out a long time...
This time out, Koestler offers what he clearly intends to be an astounding fact-that the majority of the world's 14 million Jews are not Semites. Most European and American Jews, he advises, should not trace their origins to the tents of Jacob but rather to the yurts of 7th century Caucasian nomads known as Khazars. With their fair skin, reddish hair and blue eyes, the Khazars were not what is usually regarded as Semites. They spoke a kind of old Turkish, but their origins remain hidden...
...Jacob B. Hurwitz Woodmere...
...circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale; he "has a good record on Israel, and Jewish people respect...