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...Ever since he was a Manhattan lawyer before World War II, the senior U.S. Senator from New York has been interested in Latin America. What makes Republican Jacob Javits' thoughts especially worthwhile is that they often coincide with the private views of the White House. Thus last week, as the New York Republican ended a swing through Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, Government and business leaders listened attentively to his ideas...
...Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought by John Jacob Astor in 1906 for $50,000, is a 30-ft. mural of King Cole and his merry court that still jollifies the bar of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel...
...sick, the aged, the infirm and the discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York's Senator Jacob Javits cautioned that he would resist cur tailment of education, welfare and antipoverty programs...
Though that approach was generally accepted, there were some noteworthy reservations. As Senator Jacob Javits put it: "The one big qualification that I would make to this idea of 'containment without isolation' is that it should be within the context of a peace settlement in Viet Nam. I still cannot see casting bread upon the waters to hungry sharks who will eat you up if you dare to put your toe overboard. But something has to be done within the context of giving the world a sense of peace...
...firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water from Glasgow can be relied upon to sell anything," he commercialized at a luncheon. As New York's Senator Jacob Javits, a bit mixed up on titles, proclaimed: "He's a very relaxed monarch...