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Though it was early in the morning when Mrs. Rhoda Katchen, of East Orange, N.J., arrived in New York City's Chinatown, she was not the first patient to join the queue outside the small herb shop at 11 Mott Street. Six others, one of whom had been there since 4:40 a.m., were already waiting for Dr. Huan Lam Ng, a China-trained acupuncturist. Soon 35 patients-none of them Chinese-were on line for treatment...
...chairman, California Real Estate Dealer Harold Willens, explains that the members have "fallen in love symbolically with George." They include Co-Chairmen Liz Stevens of Washington and Marjorie Benton of Chicago, Xerox Executive Committee Chairman Max Palevsky, Los Angeles Manufacturer Miles Rubin, Actor Warren Beatty, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, and San Francisco Socialite June Degnan. The members will be invited to attend the Democratic Convention as VIPs, wearing identifying pins. A similar Washington-based club, called "VICS" (Very Important Contributors), requires only a $5,000 donation. Its members have been invited to a McGovern picnic at Ethel Kennedy...
...STEWART MOTT New York City...
...money is not everything. Though Richard Ottinger won the 1970 senatorial primary in New York by swamping television with skillfully produced spot ads, he could not spend enough to win the election against James Buckley. Rich backers usually demand a quid pro quo -or try to. In 1968, Stewart Mott, son of the largest stockholder of General Motors' directors, offered to provide Hubert Humphrey with badly needed cash if the candidate would change his policies on Viet Nam; Humphrey refused. Last August, dairy farmers contributed some $250,000 to the Republican Party-after the Agriculture Department reversed its policy...
...what had happened to his other books: Western publishers scrambled to print competing editions, often in execrable translations. To establish copyright in Solzhenitsyn's name in France, Heeb quietly authorized the small YMCA Press (so named because it was founded by a member of the association, Dr. John Mott, in 1921) to publish August 1914 in Russian...