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...PALEVSKY, 48, Los Angeles, founder of Scientific Data Systems, largest single stockholder in Xerox, interests in films (Marjoe) and publishing, chairman of Straight Arrow Publishers (Rolling Stone). Gifts: McGovern, $126,852; McCloskey, $9,825. Loans: McGovern...
...ALEJANDRO C. ZAFFARONI, 48, president of Alza Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif., pharmaceutical firm. Gifts: McGovern, $226,000; McCloskey, $11,000. Zaffaroni, a developer of contraceptives and a drug researcher, is also a Uruguayan citizen and thus will not be able to vote in the presidential election...
Then, too, there is the reassuring presence of like-minded House members, notably "Pete" McCloskey. McCloskey, more than anyone except Riegle, is a major reference point in O Congress. With unwarranted bravado, McCloskey took his crusade against President Nixon to New Hampshire, hoping to duplicate the now mythic McCarthy venture of 1968. But the McCloskey high horse, saddled with an apathetic electorate and an empty purse, pulled up lame at the polls, dumping not Nixon but McCloskey instead. The book ends with Riegle, McCloskey, and Harvard's own Chuck Daly administering it a broken hearted coup de grace...
...McCloskey, a close friend of Daly and the former employer of his two top assistants, neglected to mention it, but Harvard played a role quite as earnest as Dartmouth or Princeton in the ensuing hoopla. In a letter to Cong. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.), published in the Congressional Record, Daly detailed "educational and financial risks" which made private colleges such as Harvard gag at the plan. An aide to Greene later charged that the letter qualified as an overt act of lobbying...
...firm, is recorded as the official Harvard lobby with the Mass. Secretary of State. It makes a perennial appearance whenever a perennial bill to strip private colleges of their tax exemption appears, and the bill perennially flames down to defeat. With the aid of Mike Brewer, another OGCA McCloskey alumnus who spends most of his time monitoring the federal government, Ropes and Gray politely surveys the legislative landscape for potential sneak attacks on the University...