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...Exec [after long pause): You know ... I like it. I really do. I like it. [Executives on bench make noises of enthusiasm.] For the kid, we'll get that small actor from Strawberry and Executioner. You know, the one who reminds me of Mickey Rooney...
...G.O.P. says) to retain his seat. His G.O.P. challenger, John S. Wold, aided by a fund-raising dinner that featured Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, put $150,000 to $250,000 into his campaign. The gubernatorial race was cheap compared with other states: Democrat John Rooney, the loser, spent $15,000; winning Republican Stanley Hathaway outspent Rooney by 100%a total of $30,000. Teno Roncalio sank $29,000 into his successful race for the House, some of it in long-term loans; G.O.P. Candidate Harry Roberts spent $50,000 (the G.O.P. says) to $90,000 (the Democrats...
...like recessions," says Francis Rooney, president of Melville Shoe Corp., "but we also know how much they help our business." This spring Rooney's company, which sells a low-price line through its Thom McAn and Meldisco divisions, was helped to a 20% increase in sales over the same period in 1969. Rooney's case is not unusual. Adversity has always smiled on a lucky few, and the present economic downturn that is bringing travail to many companies is pure serendipity for others...
Turning Off Mao. In New York's 14th Congressional District, about 150 high school and college students are at work canvassing through Brooklyn for Peter Eikenberry, an antiwar candidate fighting incumbent John J. Rooney, known to some of the students as "Superhawk." Says one volunteer who was arrested during Columbia's 1968 spring riots: "Students aren't interested in the S.D.S. rhetoric any more. We don't identify with their worker-student alliances or their Maoism. There's a very real difference between rhetoric and action on the campus-kids talk radical and act liberal...
...Soft Openers. Wallace has become a star journalist so rapidly, says CBS Writer-Producer Andrew Rooney, because of his "old still photographer's ethic of Tm going to bring in the story and the hell with everybody else.' " Wallace works harder and longer than anyone else. He is on the road fully one-third of his working life, and spent the New Year's weekend, for instance, tracking down the fugitive Cleaver in Algeria. Preparing for an interview with Judge Clement Haynsworth last month, he immersed himself for eight hours in Senate hearings transcripts, court decisions...