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...ADVENTURES OF "RABBI" JACOB...
...burst of rabid optimism common to their species, the Stateside distributors of this perishable French farce report that the movie contains "1,500 separate gags." How did such a statistic turn up? Did 20th Century-Fox survey theaters in France, where The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob has been doing the kind of business that virtually subsidizes an entire industry? Maybe the director supplied the eager exhibitors with a laugh count made on the metric system and an error was made in the conversion. Maybe something was lost in the translation...
...Dobrynin meeting led in turn to one of Jerry Ford's most remarkable accomplishments of the week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
...Government, of course, could well refuse to let Grumman take a loan from the Shah (whose government recently bought a fourth of the shares of West Germany's giant Krupp combine at a cost of about $100 million). Democratic Representative Otis Pike and Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York are pressing the State Department to approve. But it scarcely seems in the U.S.'s interest to let an important defense contractor become financially dependent on a foreign government. The Pentagon is urging Grumman to seek financing from U.S. banks instead. There also is a serious political question...
That came in a smaller meeting later in the day of the official Republican Senate leadership&$151;Scott, Tower and Griffin-and two invited Senators representing opposite wings of the party: Goldwater and New York's Liberal Jacob Javits. The group selected Goldwater as the man who ought to seek a meeting with the President to warn him of the tremendous odds against his acquittal. Said Scott: "We agreed that Barry should be our emissary to the President." It was a role long ago foreseen for Goldwater in any ultimate resignation scenario...