Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain why his expense account showed him in Los Angeles on a day that travel credit vouchers recorded him as flying from New York to Miami. Evidence indicated, said Hays, that Powell's older son, Adam III, 20, a student at M.I.T., and two friends used committee-vouched tickets for a trip from New York to Washington...
...Adam Clayton Powell is no ordinary clergyman - or Congressman. He spends much of his time these days cavorting in a Bahamian hideaway with a beauty queen that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education...
While the probers fumed, Powell continued enjoying the surroundings on Bimini, which he calls "Adam's Eden." There he has been lolling for a month with his $19,200-a-year "administrative assistant," Corrine Huff, who was Miss Ohio in the 1960 Miss U.S.A. contest. When he tires of his one-bedroom villa, Powell rests up by fishing for barracuda and wahoo from his 31-ft. yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week...
Nonetheless, some snakes are beginning to appear in Adam's Eden. The Hays subcommittee will make its report before the 90th Congress convenes, and last week one of its members, Republican Representative William Dickinson of Alabama, suggested that the investigating group may recommend criminal prosecution of Powell. California Representative Lionel Van Deerlin has threatened to block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents...
...however, by a simple majority vote, be seated only provisionally pending an investigation of his conduct. He seems undisturbed by even that prospect. Under such a sanction, he would continue drawing his $30,000-a-year salary and could, if he managed to escape jail, continue to live in Adam's Eden pretty much as he does...