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...primary against Secretary of State Charles Carpentier, 67. One of his problems was that he looked pretty liberal to Illinois' Goldwater Republicans, no matter how hard he tried to show that he didn't dislike Barry. Then, last week, there came that bit of Percy luck. Carpentier withdrew from the contest on account of illness. Suffering from what he thought was an old stomach ailment, Carpentier entered a hospital, was told that he had had a mild heart attack. Even though State Treasurer William Scott, 37, then jumped into the race, Chuck Percy now was clearly running well...
...life and health; yet it continues to enjoy a king-sized market. While many of the nation's 70 million smokers may be trying to quit, the tobacco industry has no intention of doing so. After the Surgeon General's report, the cigarette makers last week withdrew behind a smokescreen of secrecy and agonized over the next line of defense...
Among all the young comedians who tried to make a nickel by imitating the voice of President Kennedy, Boston's Vaughn Meader did the best. His album The First Family sold over 3,500,000 copies. But after the President's death, record stores withdrew the records; nightclubs where Meader had been booked canceled his engagements...
...church, the Disciples of Christ; about half of their churches (but not Johnson's) belong to the conservative North American Christian Convention, which could, in a matter of years, formally break away from the parent body. In Oakland, Calif., 18 months ago, the Melrose Baptist Church withdrew from the American Baptist Convention in protest against the ecumenical outlook of the denomination's leaders and the kind of theology taught at Eastern Baptist seminaries...
...their wealth and power, the prideful Rothschilds never forgot-or were allowed long to forget-their origins. After King Louis XVIII refused to receive Jakob's wife at court because she was not Christian, Jakob withdrew his support of the Bourbons; he was lucky to get out just before the revolution of 1830 toppled them. Because of Russia's pogroms, the Rothschilds refused to grant loans to the czars. In many ways governments began to feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan...