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...over the protests of Kennedy and McCarthy supporters, virtually assuring Humphrey of all 49 votes. In a brief visit to New York City, Humphrey sat down to luncheon with a group of Wall Streeters, walked off with pledges of some $750,000 in campaign contributions. With backing from such moneymen as Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs & Co.; John L. Loeb of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; John Connor of Allied Chemical Corp.; and Robert Dowling of the City Investing Co., Humphrey's opening kitty may soon pass the $5,000,000 mark...
...moneymen were elated over Eshkol's plans for enabling Israel to pay its own way in the world after 20 years of living mostly on bonds and aid from abroad. The country intends to increase overall production by 40% over the next four years and to raise exchange-earning industrial exports by 60%, to $725 million a year. Finance Minister Pinas Sapir frankly called on the visiting group to use its "know-how and connections" to raise much of the $750 million in new capital that would be needed...
...between gold's monetary price and its free-market price remains small. For the present, the latest $2 billion of gold to reach private hands creates a price-depressing oversupply in the market. If the free price rises to $45 per oz. or more, as some European moneymen predict, it may tempt some nations to sell official gold for the profit. Hoping to prevent that, the U.S. last week made it clear that its gold window will be shut to governments that refuse to cooperate with the new system. Could a central bank dump gold on the free market...
...doorbells, reaching most of New Hampshire's 89,216 registered Democrats, and to mail out some 700,000 pieces of literature at a minimal expense. As it was, the campaign cost anywhere from $170,000 (McCarthy's figure) to $300,000 (the Administration's figure). Key moneymen: Dreyfus Fund President Howard Stein, who is said to have raised some $100,000; Arnold Hiatt, executive vice president of Boston's Green Shoe Manufacturing Co.; independently wealthy Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz; and San Francisco Heiress June Degnan...
Arriving at Manhattan's NBC news studios, leased for the premiere of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TIME, Nov. 10), Executive Director Av Westin last week found a note left by the regular occupants. "The moneymen of Huntley-Brinkley," the message read, "hope you do-gooders do good. Good luck!" PBL will need some luck; it didn't do so good...