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...stock. (TIME Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman strongly opposed Kerkorian's first tender offer but took no position on the second. Kerkorian flew to Manhattan last week to meet MGM executives but kept silent as to whether he will try to oust Bronfman or President Louis ("Bo") Polk from their MGM posts...
Raising Hell. To revive interest, some firms have been forced to provide more outlets for the idealism of the young. Davis, Polk & Wardwell, as well as other well-established Manhattan firms, cooperate in programs whereby their junior staff members work one night a week at Legal Aid Society offices in ghetto neighborhoods. The young lawyers are allowed to take the firm's time during the day to handle the cases of the poor who seek their services at night. Going one step farther, a Baltimore firm-Piper & Marbury-plans to open its own office in the city...
Your misleading statement, which would include as Wasps such Presidents as Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, stuns my Celtic image. They were Celts...
...speech writers and idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk in 1845 chose compromise and unity as his basic themes. He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny...
...RALPH L. POLK Chairman, Board of Directors R.L. Polk&Co. Detroit...