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...Hill. Somehow, when he died last week at 65 of progressive heart failure, his rule seemed to have lasted longer, so forceful had it been. In a changing of the guard that will probably prove one more of style than of substance, F. Edward Hebert, 69, will assume the chairmanship when the 92nd Congress convenes. A 15-term Congressman from Louisiana, Hebert acquired his political savvy serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee and later on Armed Services. If anything, he is as obdurate a cold warrior as Rivers, as suspicious of civilian Pentagon officials and as opposed...
...servicemen's pay raise and sponsored a bill requiring congressional review of any cutbacks in military facilities. In one of Rivers' first encounters with the former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, the Pentagon chief tried to patronize the committee, as he had under Vinson's chairmanship. Rivers finally breathed drowsily: "But Mr. Secretary, Carl Vinson's gone. He's gone...
...sometimes killed civil rights bills by that method. Through similar control of procedures, Wilbur Mills, the Representative of a rural Arkansas constituency, has as much as or more power than the President in determining changes in tax, welfare and Social Security laws, simply because primogeniture has given him the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee (even his opponents, however, concede that he is able and conscientious...
...page report prepared under the chairmanship of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, a prominent Republican, the commission unavoidably announced its findings in the middle of an election campaign, with the certainty that the report itself will become part of the divisiveness it deplores. Republicans, led by Vice President Spiro Agnew, are campaigning hard on the law-and-order theme and have repeatedly identified Democrats with violence on the campus. But the commission-whose membership is predominantly Democratic-asked Richard Nixon to silence those who are trying to capitalize on the issue of campus unrest...
Tumultuous Meeting. Steinberg halted his takeover effort a year ago, but not before Leasco had spent some $22 million to buy 38% of Pergamon's stock in the open market. Last October a tumultuous stockholders' meeting voted Maxwell off the board and out of the chairmanship. Next month Leasco filed a suit charging Maxwell and his associates with conspiring to make false statements about Pergamon's earnings and financial condition. Leasco demands $22 million in damages; Maxwell insists that the suit is a "ploy," and is suing Leasco, alleging conspiracy to defraud...