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...fact, the full text demonstrates quite the opposite: it was sent not to the law school but to a university lobbyist, and reads: "Bases have already been touched with Peter Liacouras, with unsuccessful results...
...arguments are often strengthened by the testimony of cancer victims who claim they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York...
...calm is deceptive: lobbyists are already mapping an all-out push when congressional debates begin in earnest in a few weeks. "The battle lines are forming," says an official of a Washington-based energy trade association. "It's just a question of who lobs the first grenade. Everyone hopes someone else will." Adds a gas industry lobbyist: "We're geared for our normal congressional blitz...
...Lyndon B. Johnson, momentarily annoyed at the network and wanting to keep it off balance, spotted in a speech written by Joe Califano a reference to the "public airwaves." Johnson pencilled in "the public's airwaves," a change in emphasis so sensitive that the next day every major broadcast lobbyist had nervously called Califano to see whether this heralded some dangerous new populist policy at the White House...
...clomps around Plains, Ga., in cowhide ankle boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt. Brother Billy breakfasted (on grits and Pabst) at the Best Western Motel in Americus, Ga., last week wearing denims and a blue plaid shirt opened to reveal his new, post-election T shirt emblazoned with REDNECK LOBBYIST. Of course, to them and many Americans the gear look is an old look, something they have been comfortably wearing for years...