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...close, applause meter-judged contest, first place garlands went to Elisabeth B. Reynolds '88, Rebecca Hardy '88, Amy R. Spater '88, and Laurence H. Pratt '88, Who performed in drag. For their performance of Aretha Franklin's "Respect," the four won a $20 gift certificate to the record department of the Coop. Pratt downplayed his role in the quartet. "Guys dressing up in drag is a pretty popular thing," he said...
...American Airlines, whose chief competitor, United Air Lines, happened to be a Kalmbach client. The sixth was visited by a lower-level fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General. Not that Nixon's men had to get rough. George A. Spater, until recently the chairman of American Airlines, was courted by Kalmbach over dinner at Manhattan's chic "21" Club. His host was "a very soft-sell, a very congenial gentleman," said Spater...
Kalmbach asked for a donation of $100,000, Spater continued, and "I was told that contributions of this amount would be regarded as in a special class." American's ex-chairman likened any thought of refusing to cooperate to the terra incognita on ancient mariners' charts, which is filled "with all sorts of fierce-looking creatures." It was not, he explained, so much a matter of what favors a hefty gift might buy as a fear of what might happen to his federally regulated firm if it did not cough up handsomely. Eventually Spater arranged to issue...
...Like Spater, most of the executives claimed that they broke the law not to buy specific favors for their companies but rather out of fear of what might happen if they refused. The process, agreed Atkins, "borders on extortion...
...hear Smith's kind of language again. The company's board called the now 74-year-old C.R. out of an active semiretirement with a Wall Street investment banker and installed him once again as American's chairman. Smith replaced the scholarly, soft-spoken George Spater, whose most recent misfortune had been to admit that in 1972 the company made an illegal $55,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign. Smith showed up at his office overlooking Manhattan's East River by 8 a.m. the next morning, greeting old friends and pecking...