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Mathias were classmates at law school, Brewster was an usher at Mathias' wedding, and Mathias is godfather to one of Brewster's children. Both are liberals; both are for civil rights in a state that still clings to many Old South attitudes. But Brewster is relatively tough on law and order, while Mathias emphasizes the need to remedy the causes of social disorder. Brewster supports the Administration on Viet Nam; Mathias has been a fairly consistent dove. Mahoney, a self-made contractor, has muted his racist rhetoric since 1966 but still appeals to "antis," no matter what they...
...some 100 people who protested against the Warsaw Pact invasion. Ironically, among those sentenced to a two-year prison term was a woman named Sandra Weigl. She is related to Playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose works reflected his hope that Communism would end man's inhumanity to man and usher in a new age of justice...
...Soviet Union has always argued that it was more than just a nation. As the fountainhead of an ideology that promised to right the world's wrongs and usher in a golden age of peace and equality among men, it has possessed a unique mystique and prestige that enhanced its already formidable power as a huge and populous sovereign state. As the defender of Communism, moreover, the Soviet Union long could do no wrong in the eyes of its followers the world over. The image of Russia as the ideological motherland was buffeted by the defiance of Yugoslavia...
...company, still owns the seat on the New York Stock Exchange he acquired in 1936, also finds time for antique collecting and philanthropy. The man who actually runs MCA is President Lew Wasserman, 55, who was elevated to that job by Stein in 1946. A onetime theater usher, Wasserman moved MCA into TV production when the new medium began threatening the movie industry in the early 1950s, six years ago acquired Decca Records and its controlling interest in Universal Pictures. Under Wasserman, MCA has grown into a $224 million-a-year company, with earnings last year...
...wizened usher of many years put it after one of many precedents was shattered by the McCarthy rally, "I guess things are a bit different tonight...