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...sure, the House and Senate codes will inflict some inequities on members, depending upon their sources of outside income. Lawyers who draw fees and salaries, for example, cannot convert their income to unrestricted stock holdings; Congressmen connected with corporations can. Indeed, the estimated 22 millionaires in the House will be unaffected, since their income is mainly in inherited wealth, farms, family companies and dividends...
Bramlet desperately started trying to convert his assets into cash. Perhaps he intended to pay off the mobsters, or maybe just flee, since a contract had reportedly been put out on him. In either case, he will not be drawing his own pension from the fund...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...
...Convert the city council and mayoralty elections from the present open primary, bipartisan races to partisan primaries and races...
...brand of soda pop to a city. I FOUND IT! tease the TV and newspaper ads, billboards, buttons, bumper stickers. Found what? The ads offer a telephone number that will provide the answer: Jesus. In Chicago, church members manned 100 telephones 15 hours a day. Said one local convert, Banker William McLaren: "I had an unbelievable feeling. I cried for six hours...