Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freehanded Korean businessman had fled, the party-giving Oriental beauty was testifying to a federal grand jury, and a bipartisan clutch of Congressmen were nervous about Washington's latest payola scandal...
Ordinarily such a landslide sweeps into office many freshman Congressmen from districts that in less volatile years are counted as "safe" for the opposition party. These Congressmen in the next election find themselves highly vulnerable when the turbulent circumstances--like Watergate and Nixon's resignation--that prompted the lanslide have subsided. However, this pattern, which held true in 1966 and 1938, may not take hold this year...
...Corps of Engineers out of the dam-building business." The environment is an issue on which Carter has a well-established record. While serving as Governor of Georgia, he managed to block the Army - although it was supported by the state legislature, previous Governors and Georgia congressmen - from constructing a dam that would have impeded the Flint River, the last free-flowing river in the Piedmont section of the state. Carter also fought successfully to help preserve Georgia's coastline and wetlands. He established a Heritage Trust Commission to preserve choice natural areas, as well as historical and cultural...
...expose, a book called O Congress, Michigan Democratic Representative Don Riegle, 38, spoke disapprovingly of Congressmen ("even elderly members") on the make. "The fact that a member might be married makes no difference at all," clucked Riegle. So the Congressman was understandably distressed last week when the Detroit News unearthed some 1969 taped conversations between the married Riegle (he divorced and remarried in 1972) and someone in his office code-named Dorothy. The tapes, the authenticity of which Riegle does not dispute, describe an "exquisite session" enjoyed by the Congressman and Dorothy. In one conversation, he complains about having...
Perhaps in fear of Twain's acerbic observation, none of the usual Senators, Congressmen and other worthies gathered last week when President Ford quietly signed into law a broad, new and long-overdue revision of U.S. copyright legislation. So old was the last law (1909) that if it could have been copyrighted, the copyright would have been due to expire ten years ago. Despite the advent of such undreamed-of complications as TV and photocopiers, the battles over changes dragged on through 20 years. "The new law has seen righting and its body shows some scars," says John Hersey...