Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he lost under the sheer weight of his opponents' voting power, Alabama's Democratic Senator James Allen, 62, played the most adroit role in the three weeks of parliamentary maneuvering. Tall and paunchy, his langorous drawl camouflaging his Mach 4 mind, Allen used every trick, rule, ruse and gambit in the book to bedazzle his foes. At one point it seemed as if Allen had the Senate voting on the following snarled procedure: a motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order...
...liberals patiently persisted. They got a boost from Rockefeller's ruling that each new Senate draws up its own rules and that until Rule 22 was readopted, only a simple majority was required to change past practices. Rockefeller was even more helpful when he deliberately refused to recognize Allen on three successive occasions when Allen sought futilely to make "a parliamentary inquiry." Although conservative Senators angrily assailed Rockefeller for this high-handed tactic, Rocky was technically right. The Senate rules specifically permit the presiding officer to ignore a parliamentary inquiry when he believes it is being used...
Because Rockefeller's ruling was upheld by a majority of the Senate, however, it prevented Allen from blocking preliminary votes on the rules change and permitted Senate sentiment for modification to be registered. Clearly worried about public reaction to a tediously quarrelsome Congress as President Ford demands movement on economic and energy programs, Democratic Leaders Mike Mansfield and Robert Byrd joined Republican Whip Robert Griffin in seeking a middle ground...
...seven years as dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, expansive, flamboyant Dwight Allen, 44, worked miracles (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970). Demonstrating a genius for fund raising, he brought in a total of $15 million in federal and foundation grants. With a flair for innovation, he transformed the small, conservative segment of the state university into a flourishing but controversial school that concentrated on urban education and minority problems and encouraged a "do your own thing" attitude among students and faculty. Wearing colorful custom-tailored African shirts, he toured the country, making as many...
...conveniently pre-stamped postcards distributed by the Senior Class Committee, seniors can recommend as many alternatives to Allen and Calley as they can think of. Word is that Mel Brooks and Hunter Thompson are currently leading the list. Like last year's L.F. Stone, if he showed up. Thompson would probably give an interesting speech. But since Thompson might also be comatose from Ibogaine, seniors might want to consider other possibilities as well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead...