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...became a committeeman in his father's ward (a post he still holds), caught Mayor Daley's eye and, at 24, became the youngest member of the Illinois House. At 30, he was elected to the U.S. House, where he has remained for eleven terms- although as a member of the Capitol's Tuesday-Thursday Club, he spends four days a week on average back home.* His wife and four children have not moved to Washington, and he estimates he has spent only nine weekends there...
Already there are a few rumblings. Says Russ Cook, U.A.W. district committeeman at GM's Buick plant in Flint: "If we don't get smarter and start combatting the machines, we will be cannibalizing ourselves and competing against one another for jobs." Adds Larry Jones, a Chrysler metal-shop worker: "They say they are only going to put robots on boring jobs. But in an auto plant, all the jobs are boring jobs...
...burden of maintaining Buddhism by themselves. The 100 families in the tiny hamlet of Damrak Ampil, 12½ miles west of Phnom-Penh, recently contributed enough money to cast a new bronze Buddha and begin restoring their roofless temple. "Lord Buddha sustained us during our darkest hours," explains Village Committeeman Chea Non. "Our village is poor, but our faith is strong...
...while the President retained control, many Democrats were increasingly fearful that his poor handling of Billy's irresponsible ventures might critically tarnish him with voters. Warned Donald Fowler, a Democratic national committeeman from South Carolina: "With this public mood, everybody is willing to believe the worst about any politician...
...that Ronald Reagan will not be the third President to work for Henry Kissinger." (Kissinger insisted that he had no such aspirations. Said he: "I am not here as a job seeker.") Similarly, the Reagan lieutenants vetoed moderate moves that might discomfit conservatives. Thus when New York Republican National Committeeman Richard Rosenbaum urged convention managers to schedule a brief tribute to Nelson Rockefeller ("We have to make room for decency in politics"), he was rebuffed. Reagan's advisers reasoned that a tribute to Rockefeller, even though he is dead, might reopen the bitter ideological quarrel...