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...person who quickly saw the implications of the "indirect" contribution was Stewart Mott, 38, the wealthy General Motors heir who gave $725,000 to Democratic Candidate George McGovern in 1972. Mott said that he might spend $50,000 or $100,000 in support of certain congressional candidates, and that he might start a massive media campaign for former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who is running as an independent. As it happens, McCarthy was a party to the suit that prompted last week's ruling by the court...
...papers. Andrews thought the title Bull Tales might offend some readers, so it was changed to Doonesbury, an amalgam of two words: doone, an old prep-school term for someone who is out to lunch, and Pillsbury, after Trudeau's roommate Charles Pillsbury, a flour-fortune heir now active in liberal Democratic politics in Connecticut...
...outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating him with the deference due a young man who happens to be the likely heir to a political dynasty. "Even a few minutes' talk with him reveals his political acumen," marveled Devaraj Urs, chief minister of the state of Karnataka, last week. "He is as courageous as his mother." Notes one longtime political observer in New Delhi: "At the beginning of 1975, Sanjay...
...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
Moreover, the heir to a large fortune usually has an easier time coming up with the cash to pay the estate tax than the person whose inheritance consists of farmland and animals or the building and equipment of a laundry, clothing store or restaurant. Even so, the widely held belief that estate taxes have mightily contributed to the decline of the family farm is difficult to prove: few if any statistics exist to document it. That is not likely to deter politicians of either party from harping on the belief as they pursue the farm vote this year...