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Some Jewish opposition to McGovern can be explained, of course, by simple materialism. Like other people, many Jews have prospered, and they want to hang on to what they have got. McGovern's tax and welfare programs seem to them to threaten to take away some of their gains. The Democrats hope that the traditional Jewish party loyalty-and sympathy for the have-nots-will eventually surface. In past elections Jews have threatened to vote what they perceived as their interests but have ended up voting what they regarded as their conscience. While Nixon will make inroads with...
...Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They trooped through the Universal Studio, and the children got autographs from Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down...
...capital outflows, strengthening barriers in force since 1947. Banks are severely limited in dealing in foreign exchange for their own investment purposes. Companies are allowed to buy foreign currency only for import and export deals or for officially sanctioned overseas investment. The rising burden of bureaucratic paperwork could threaten London's role as a world financial center. Says an official of London's Midland Bank: "These days I push paper for the government...
...seemed almost like a miracle drug. Cheap and efficient, it destroyed pests, reduced such insect-borne diseases as malaria, and brought bumper harvests. But over the years scientists found disturbing evidence, first publicized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, that DDT was harmful to animals too, and might threaten man as well...
...resolution introduced by James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, the Council stated that "an unlimited right of grand juries to ask any question and to expose a witness to citations for contempt could easily threaten scholarly research...