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...England liberal came to Washington with an understanding of legislative procedure that served him well in skirmishes against the Bourbon craftsmen of the Senate's Southern bloc. In 1966, when Lyndon Johnson's Model Cities proposal was foundering, Muskie called the White House and explained why he felt the bill could not be passed as drafted. He then set to work hammering out an acceptable substitute, which he later guided to passage with a combination of eloquence and parliamentary skill. "The pages of history are full of the tales of those who sought the promise of the city and found...
Satch finally arrived in the majors in 1948 when Bill Veeck signed him for the Cleveland Indians. Although past 40, he helped the Indians to their first American League pennant in 28 years. In 1951 he followed Veeck to the old St. Louis Browns, with whom he spent almost three years as a relief pitcher. He later played for the Miami Marlins in the International League. In 1965 he made his last big-league appearance, with the Kansas City Athletics...
...Internal Revenue Service probably does not know what to make of Bill Drake. How can he run a multimillion-dollar radio consulting service out of his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles? And that inflatable plastic armchair and the swimming pool in which it floats - are they taxable as luxuries or deductible as an executive suite...
...graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine for those days, the 425-h.p. Wasp was an immediate success and helped finance the founding of United. United at one time or another pulled under its wing Bill Boeing, Chance Vought and Igor Sikorsky, also gave birth to the now independent United Air Lines. Horner grew along with the company, masterminding Pratt & Whitney's World War II production of half the power (600 million h.p.) used in U.S. war planes. He became president of the entire company...
Glass, Right or Wrong. For the most part, The Case Against Congress reports conflict-of-interest cases, many of them unblushingly straightforward. Congressman Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm...