Word: congression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship is not necessarily sinister. Ex-generals have as much right to sell their expertise as anyone else. Long before he retires, though, a procurement officer may have difficulty being tough on a company that is looking him over as a possible employee. One solution would be for Congress to bar military men from working for defense contractors for at least two years after retirement...
Unhappily, Congress itself violates the most elementary rules of conduct. In the early 1960s, for example, Missouri Senator Edward Long accepted $160,000 from a lawyer who had spent most of his life representing gangsters and gamblers. Finally persuaded to look into the matter, the Senate ethics committee found nothing wrong...
...years could bring total chaos on the roads leading into San Francisco-a fate that could also befall other less-prepared cities. However, help may be available for many communities in the next few years. Transportation Secretary John Volpe said last week that the Nixon Administration would ask Congress to allocate several billion dollars during the next decade for urban mass-transit facilities...
...students' resentment over the court orders parallels that felt in the early 1900s by labor leaders, who were repeatedly stymied by management's use of the injunction to halt strikes. In 1932, Congress finally came to labor's aid with the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited federal courts from issuing an injunction to stop peaceful, nondisruptive strikes...
PRESIDENT PUSEY listened to a couple of sharp lectures from members of Congress last Thursday when he testified before the special House subcommittee of the Committee of Labor and Education. But even the toughest lectures he got were only a small indication of the real mood in the nation's highest legislative body. Congress is angry and it is very likely that some form of what Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) calls "overkill" legislation will pass, at least in the House...