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...congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem and arrest President Gerald Ford's momentum before the presidential campaigns begin in earnest next year. As a first step, House Speaker Carl Albert planned to meet with House committee chairmen to set a new Democratic strategy for the rest of the session...
Contributing to the freshmen's anger has been the fact that they were largely responsible for the revolt in January that dumped three committee chairmen and instituted about a dozen procedural reforms that weakened the traditional seniority system. The reformers wanted to make the House more responsive to new ideals and the will of the majority. To the dismay of the freshmen, the changes also further loosened party discipline. The liberal House Democratic Study Group has found that party unity on three of the attempts to override presidential vetoes was the feeblest in 20 years. In an unprecedented move...
...little more than a month later, the Adams House film society did show "Birth of a Nation," this time at the Science Center and this time with a presentation by professor William Scott, visiting lecturer on Afro-American Studies and chairmen of the Black Studies Program at Wellesley College. A crowd of about 135 listened to Scott, watched the film, and then left...
...Rosovsky started to trim. His assistant dean for financial affairs. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, met with department chairmen all fall and argued over budgets for next year in an attempt to effect a 2 to 3 per cent cut in teaching staff...
SENIORITY SYSTEM. Reducing the authority of arbitrary and aging committee chairmen was generally applauded, though a number of panelists cautioned that this has created a dispersal of power and a leadership vacuum that could work to the advantage of a strong President. To prevent this, panelists argued, either the party leaders in both chambers must act more forcefully or the unwieldy party caucus must assert itself...