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...represent the shareholders, a group headed by Manhattan Lawyer Benjamin Javits, 71, brother and former partner of U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, last week ran large ads in major newspapers, soliciting investors to send in 100 for each share of A.T. & T. that they own in order to create a war chest. Javits wants to induce the FCC to scrub its investigation in favor of a friendlier "roundtable conference," contends that the company is entitled to at least 8% on its investment. His slogan: "Owners of the world, unite...
...waiting on the second floor, he embraced him as the party's most promising national leader and potential savior. Addressing 2,400 Republicans at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the Nassau County G.O.P., Rocky noted that both Romney and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits were on hand. "It's nice to have them here together," he said pointedly. "I find a growing feeling among Republicans that it might be nice to have them together in our future...
...Place of Sterility. Last week, at the 19-year-old Jacob Riis public-housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
Agam has gained important commissions from his native Israel. His 29½-ft. by 20-ft. mural (with 30,000 small squares of colored lines and dots), called Double Metamorphosis, bewilders passengers on the liner Shalom. In 1964, he did a 197-ft.-long ceiling mural titled Jacob's Ladder, which baffles visitors to the National Convention Center in Jerusalem. Each one in its built-in multiple perspectives is a thousand paintings...
...presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...