Word: congressed
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...controllers, which has snarled airports in metropolitan New York and elsewhere with flight delays. Unhappy over a manpower shortage and congested skyways, the traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional 2,439 air controllers. Last week they scored another when Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd warned that Washington would limit traffic at New York airports unless the aviation industry took steps to relieve the congestion...
...CASE AGAINST CONGRESS by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. 473 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...angry man. He makes it his business to doubt the probity of anyone in public life until he has checked him out. He has often been irresponsible, a journalistic guerrilla. Still, on balance, Pearson has dug out more ugly facts than any rival muckraker. In The Case Against Congress, written in collaboration with his associate Jack Anderson, Pearson compiles a forceful indictment of venality in Congress after 35 years of watching it in action and writing about it in his daily column...
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...
...uncommon practice for Congressmen to put creditors on their staffs as a way of repaying them. Of course, they do not actually work or even have to be in Washington. "Much of the story of Tom Dodd," write the authors, "is, in microcosm, the story of Congress...