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...this election, Scylla and Charybdis. If the White House does not support the campaign of former Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, 51, it loses an opportunity to gain another Republican seat. If, on the other hand, it supports Blount successfully against patriarchal 26-year Senate Veteran John J. Sparkman, 72, then Liberal Democrat William Proxmire will likely succeed Sparkman as Senate Banking Committee chairman. "Who the hell wants Proxmire?" is a common business view. The White House appears to have opted for keeping John Sparkman. Three months ago, Sparkman received a significant presidential "Dear John" letter commending him for "responsible...
...Massachusetts Bankers Association held a $99-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Boston. All the money was distributed to out-of-state Senators: Democrat John Sparkman of Alabama, Republican John Tower of Texas and Democrat Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire. All three, like Brooke, sit on the Senate Banking Committee...
...Capitol, begun during George Washington's term in office and restored after the building was burned by the British in 1814. Besides the damage to the men's room, the Senate barbershop and the back-corridor hideaway offices of Senators Everett Jordan, Caleb Boggs and John Sparkman were damaged. Architects and engineers will spend weeks searching for damage around the fragile west front of the building, which is already buttressed to support cracks in the sandstone facing...
...contrast, the full-scale replica of America that sailed into New York harbor last week en route to the Cup trials at Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought...
...system, for example, the customer contracts to make regular payments to the fund for ten years-but a full 50% during the first year is diverted to salesmen's commissions and other charges. The average front-end buyer is barely aware of this fact. Said Subcommittee Chairman John Sparkman, an Alabama Democrat who also heads the full Senate Banking and Currency Committee: "Ordinarily, the salesman is pushing you so hard that you don't even look at the prospectus until you have bought the shares. And then you don't understand it when you do look...