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Screams. Then Burt Zien, the Milwaukee plumbing and heating tycoon who had organized the affair, took over. "Okay, you fellas know why you're here," he began. He painted a sorry picture of McGovern's finances and stepped up the pressure: "He needs money fast?very fast. He has to tie down television time and pay travel bills. Soliciting pledges through the mail and collecting them takes too much time. What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral...
...money gets bigger at the national level and harder to turn down. Nevertheless Humphrey says that he declined a large gift from New York Philanthropist Stewart Mott, now a prime McGovern benefactor, in 1968 when Mott wanted Humphrey to denounce the Viet Nam War more strongly. Mott denies this, but he has tried to influence the positions of other candidates. Sounded out by Texas oil interests during the Democratic primaries this year, Edmund Muskie passed up much cash because he refused to abandon his intention of trying to lower the oil-depletion allowance. Most gifts, of course, do not come...
WALTER T. DUNCAN, 45, a Texas real estate developer with an aversion to publicity and photographers. Gifts: Hubert Humphrey, $300,000; Nixon, $257,000. "McGovern goes too far," said Duncan in explaining his post-primary Republican switch...
...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...