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Both Mitchell and Stans have been deeply implicated in the Watergate scandal itself and are under investigation by the federal grand jury in Washington that is probing the affair. Stans was the Nixon moneyman whose bountiful safe financed the actual burglary and wiretapping of Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex last June. It may also have furnished the conspirators with hush money to cover up White House involvement in that illegal eavesdropping...
...magazine fiction, concerns the downfall and upfall of Tony Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings of the hero's conscience, which, after much interior melodrama, sees him through...
...Millionaire Max Palevsky, who contributed some $350,000 to McGovern's primary campaigns, is disenchanted. Of the Eagleton affair, Palevsky says bitterly: "This is a perfect example of that staff. If there is a way to f- up something, they will find it." Henry Kimelman, another major McGovern moneyman (see BUSINESS), is also uneasy. Before the Eagleton matter blew up, he was unhappy at the speed with which the tacticians were spending money. Now he has had to hold up a huge direct-mail solicitation because he fears that no one will contribute until the Eagleton matter is resolved...
Morris departed with a new and bitter aphorism: "It all boiled down to the money men and the literary men. And, as always, the money men won." At Harper's, which has run in the red the past three years, the chief moneyman is Publisher William S. Blair. The showdown between them came two weeks ago at a regularly scheduled business meeting in Minneapolis, where Morris found himself faced with a 21-page memorandum submitted by Blair, most of it critical of the magazine's editorial performance. Blair's attack was based largely on economics, but some...
Born in Poland in 1909, Sapir emigrated to Palestine in 1929. Trained as a banker, he gradually turned to politics. During the 1948 war for independence, Sapir went abroad to raise the funds to buy the guns. Thereafter he served as the moneyman for both the government and the party, building up a strong political machine in the process. Two years ago, when the late Premier Levi Eshkol first fell ill and the Labor Party secretariat met to discuss a successor, Sapir designated Golda Meir. Three months later, when Eshkol died, the choice became fact...