Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his wife Colene and daughters Deborah, 21, and Ellen, 20. Every morning he swims laps in his backyard pool for precisely 30 minutes. Reserved in public, Brown can be arrogant. But Pentagon officials approvingly recall that during the '60s he got along well with uniformed officers and Congressmen after overcoming their initial suspicions of him as an insufferable boy wonder...
Risky Future. Young, 44, is one of the brightest Congressmen. Defeated only in his first campaign for election to the House in 1970, he has won three later contests by ever increasing majorities. He has earned a prized place on the immensely powerful House Rules Committee, and with continuity of service he would be virtually assured of eventual succession to its chairmanship. Why he should risk so golden a political future remains a mystery to many of his supporters...
Hoping to pick up some pointers for his new job, Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa enrolled in a special Harvard University program for freshman Congressmen. As a former no-nonsense professor himself, the California Senator-elect should have made an attentive student. Alas, during seminars he was caught napping. At least Hayakawa had a novel excuse: "I admit I may have dozed through some of the sessions, but I haven't had a good rest since the campaign...
Witty, extremely popular with his fellow Congressmen, Adams is the House's foremost expert on transportation . . . Drafted and pushed through a plan for the Conrail system that subsidizes formerly unprofitable Northeastern railroads . . . Urges thorough congressional reform of airline regulation; wants carriers to be freer in setting fares . . . As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has deftly negotiated precarious compromises between big spenders and conservatives . . . Episcopalian . . . Married, four children . . . Superb tennis player...
...that Boiling would be squeezed out. Burton admits that a number of his cronies had suggested such a ploy but insists that he vetoed it. "I told them, 'Straight football!' " Burton said later. "I wanted all the votes I could get." The denial was disbelieved by many Congressmen. The second-ballot result: Burton 107, Wright 95, Boiling...