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CHARLES MATHIAS. The Maryland Republican has large Jewish constituencies in Baltimore and in Montgomery County, near Washington. But, determined to act independently, he sought advice on the plane deal from both Kissinger and Christopher. As he leaned toward approval of the sales, he talked to such all-out opponents as Amitay and Jerold Hoffberger, owner of the Baltimore Orioles. On a weekend trip to California, Mathias was told by a former president of the Los Angeles Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith: "My agency is pulling all the stops out, but I disagree; I think...
...promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...
...four years later, 1972, when his message was perhaps most powerful, that he was tracked down and shot by the deluded Arthur Bremer while delivering a campaign speech in a Maryland parking lot. One of the bullets lodged near his spine, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. He had won Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina and went on to win in the Maryland and Michigan primaries, but his drive for the nomination was halted. So was his career. He tried yet again in 1976, with male nurses carrying him in his wheelchair, but the old enthusiasm had faded...
...snickers stopped in 1943, when Jacobs claimed an unimpressive colt named Stymie for $1,500 and turned him into one of the most spectacular horses of all time. Stymie won more than $900,000 in purses, allowing Jacobs and Bieber to buy a 283-acre breeding farm in Maryland. They called it Stymie Manor. Jacobs, meanwhile, had married Ethel Dushock, daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer from Yonkers, and raised a family of two boys and a girl...
...anyone convicted of a serious crime. Wolfson felt that his crime was not sufficiently serious, but after a friendly New York racing-board member warned him that his 1969 application would be rejected, Wolfson chose not to apply. He stayed out of racing until 1971, when New York, Maryland and Florida all granted him licenses. Last year the Wolfsons' stable ranked fourth in winnings...