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...lost in Times Square. Even so, Clark waged a highly successful campaign of low-key rage at social injustice. He put a ceiling of $100 on contributions to his cause and vowed that he was out to help "restore integrity to government." Facing Clark in November: liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, 70, who will be trying for his fourth term...
...crews of Courageous and Southern Cross battled for the America's Cup in Rhode Island Sound, members of the Newport Reading Room were embroiled in a teapot-sized tiff of their own. As a story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests from politicians...
...Senate, a public-service employment bill has been introduced by New York Republican Jacob Javits and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson. Javits and Nelson, like Burns, call for $4 billion but only 500,000 jobs; they are thinking of average salaries of $8,000 while Burns' plan contemplates only $5,000. Illinois Republican Charles Percy has advocated the spending of an even greater sum: $6 billion...
...more readily use modern methods of biblical criticism and tend to view some supposedly historical passages (the Garden of Eden story, for example) as religious myth. At the Synod's convention in New Orleans last year, the conservatives consolidated their hold on the denomination by returning the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus to the church's presidency and winning a majority on the board of its keystone theological school, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis...
...Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...