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Show The Enterprise Review, August 4, 1976 Roberto Seidner was born in Austria and, in 1938, when Hitler came in the front door he fled through the back door to Columbia. It was a tough decision since Austria was his home and, in fact, he represented her in the track events at the 1936 Olympics. In Columbia he founded some woolen mills which prospered. More than thirty years later he sold them to his sons, took his new wife and his earnings and moved to There he Madrid, Spain. retired. The other day he came to Salt Lake City to visit a brother and sister-in-laand to invest w warehouse from Trammell SO I con-ma- T ARk) TO BOY FIXAVU6- - A shrewd negotiator with an unbelievable head for numbers and an excellent sense of value. In four tough negotiations he left the table with two office buildings, a warehouse, a medical clinic and some industrial land. And all of it he placed in trust for his two children. He purchased a medical Bonne omR kips, swam CIRCLES ARCMP TO LOOK JO LOOT TK6 n, I learucp UKS A aup LEAMEP Crow; and several acres of sitting duck for a he was it. Can you imagine the risk of going to a foreign country with half a million dollars in your pocket, letting everyone know that, and then complicating the whole thing by setting a deadline by which everything must be closed. Tjie reason this turned out not to be quite the risk was, simply, Roberto - a sun. He retained an extraordinarily competent and bilingual broker named Ines Fowler and set in search of income property. He had a specific grid formulated about what he wanted and he had a short time frame in which to make a decision. Now, if there ever was a BUT M 6 SCREN4lU6FAKe!' industrial ground. I would estimate he ac- quired approximately million worth of income $4-- 5 property. And he did it with less than $500,000.00. Roberto ended up staying three weeks instead of two, due principally to yankee inefficiency, but he got what he wanted, and thats a credit to the real estate industry in Salt Lake. r m so MEP TO SIT WITH A BAP HEART. m-- $01 2 South and 3rd East from John Price; a 135,000 square foot Chuck Akerlow some of those dollars earned in the heat of the Columbian lib clinic at South Temple and 9th Hast from Bob Gark; a two building office complex at 6th Investment Summary imp I OJU-PM- Page EHI EDn SO AFTER Kb -- IMTO TBSVnW MB TOJAOVt Afib m ice THAT I LEARNED too i10lejsaeo u. AMP bike.. SOMETIMES FA HOtO TO BREAK AM ARK AUP OFF A AMP MOW THE MOST HARP W3RKT MOT SWiMMIUS. ASK07-AFIE- R, pmepwp IU CREAM I'M THE Kb Pragmatic Dogmatics Aiken on the Senate by Kent Shearer workers, who are preventing the shipment of such food. great deal of fuss has been made about Jake Garns outspoken criticism of political games on the Senate floor and of some of the Senators themselves. Jake, some contend, ought instead to become a member of the or else the effectiveness of his club, representation will be curtailed. Now comes retired Senator George D. as if in Jakes defense, both in Aiken substance and in tactics. Following his service as Governor of his state, Aiken came to the Senate in 1941. He served until his voluntary retirement in 1975. Highly respected, he became ranking minority member of the Agriculture Committee, and was also on the Foreign Relations Committee. During his last three years in office, the Vermonter kept a weekly diary. It has been published. Aiken: Senate Diary January 1972 January 1975 (345 pp., $12.50) is presently available at local book stores. It is a lucid assessment of the Senate which Jake entered as Aiken departed. Herewith are some random quotations from the volume. All pertain to 1972. To me, they sound Garnish indeed. On Politics In the Senate A (R-V- t) -- Politics have prevailed almost to the point of hypocrisy. As an example, one prominent Democrat is loud in his advocacy of getting food to the refugees in East Pakistan, now called Bangladesh, while at the same time expressing great sympathy for the dock With the Democratic National Convention due to start in Miami in a couple of weeks, the political, situation is increasingly worse, with candidates making promises they never could keep and which, if kept, would be destructive or at least very harmful to the nation. On the Quality of Candidates I have never seen so many incompetent persons aspiring to high office and apparently well financed in their efforts to achieve it. On Certain Aspects of Financing Some of the subcommittees of important congressional committees appear to be used largely for the promotion of the aspirations of this or that member of Congress. These subcommittees are granted large appropriations which will be used to a great extent to promote the political aspirations of the subcommittee chairman. On Personalities It has high time to get out of Washington. The air was sultry with what we used to call cheap politics - actually dishonest politics. Senator Muskie came back to the Senate apparently a sadder and wiser man, and seems ready to settle down to being a senator once more. Senator Humphrey also came back, apparently reconciled to probably defeat the the Democratic Convention to be held in Miami starting July 8. Then the Democratic Creden- tials Committee decided that Senator McGovern was not entitled to all of Californias 271 delegates to the convention, even though it was, in effect, Californias law, and took 151 delegates away from him, giving the larger part of those left to Humphrey. This restored Huberts hopes and off he went again, irrepresible as ever. What I thought was most interesting, however, was the expression on Teddy Kennedys face right after the news of McGoverns setback . . .Teddy was actually drooling, and not in sorrow. If Aiken did not come to sorrow due to a propensity to speak honestly his mind, why should Jake? Do those who argue otherwise assume that Utahns are less bright than Vermonters? Im certain this is not the case. Its just that the citizens at large are beginning to perceive what Aiken understood and Jake understands; that, if left alone in far off Washington, certain politicians will pervert the public good to serve their own ends. I, for one, hope therefore that Jake will begin at once to keep a similar weekly diary. Then, when the time comes, his tract can serve the purpose Aikens does now. In the meanwhile, our school boards should make Aikens book instructional material for courses in American Government. Our students should know of the warts he succinctly exposes. |