Word: chairmanship
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...suggesting that the tawdry revelations of Elizabeth Ray, Colleen Gardner and other taxpayer-subsidized playgirls were insignificant. But they were a lot less important than other congressional abuses of power. That was clearly illustrated last week when Congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio was forced to give up his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. For five years Hays had operated the committee as a personal fief, lavishing perquisites on himself and his colleagues, placing Ohio cronies and relatives of friends on the payroll, junketeering shamelessly−and resisting the few challenges to his power. But it took...
...Ohio constituents had just renominated him for a 15th House term -the margin over a feeble opponent was much smaller than usual-but Hays' Democratic colleagues gave him a resounding vote of no confidence. They stripped him permanently of the chairmanship of his party's Congressional Campaign Committee, and were ready to dislodge him from his other place of power, the House Administration Committee...
...dean in academic matters, Francis M. Pipkin, although a friend of Rosovsky's, is clearly not a member of his innermost administrative circles. As head of the CHUL, Pipkin presided over that body's waffling and disagreement, never giving much leadership. He concluded his tenure by giving the unwanted chairmanship back to Rosovsky. On other matters, his record is similarly ambiguous--his work in the tightening of honors standards was foremost, but every amendment he produced to plug the original legislative holes seemed to open several new ones...
...cozy relationships between the watchers and the watched. Among those legislators picked at week's end were Democratic liberals Birch Bayh, Adlai Stevenson, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden, and Republicans Clifford Case, Howard Baker, Mark Hatfield, Strom Thurmond and Goldwater. Though Church might be a natural candidate for chairmanship of the new committee, he ruled himself out. The expected choice is Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, a tough skeptic, who served on Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee. After Inouye, another possibility for the chairmanship is Democrat Walter Huddleston of Kentucky...
Powerful Wall Streeters began looking for a replacement last year. One who was considered: Melvin Laird. Two weeks ago, Batten was persuaded to take over the chairmanship while Needham was in Europe. When Needham returned early last week, he was presented with a fait accompli. He resigned. His successor Batten may well be only a caretaker chairman. Among candidates to succeed him eventually: Paul Kolton, current chairman of the American Stock Exchange and Donald Marron, the brilliant (IQ: 190) chief of Mitchell, Hutchins, a Wall Street brokerage house. Needham plans to stay on as a consultant to Batten...