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...Richard Conlon, an Institute fellow and executive director of the Democratic Study Group in the House of Representatives, hosted the session that featured Robert Francis, administrative assistant to Rep. Gary Studds (D-Mass...
...Conlon agreed with Francis, adding, "Many interns come back from a summer on the Hill with a sour taste in their mouth." He attributed such unfavorable responses to what he called the interns' "unrealistic" expectations about the work performed in a congressman's office...
...made the dollar cheaper is the Government's greenback-manufacturing Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Rising paper and ink prices have pushed the cost of printing 1,000 bills of any denomination from $7.76 to $11 in the past three years. To cut costs, Bureau Director James A. Conlon wants to re-introduce the $2 bill, which was retired from circulation in 1966-by which time it was being issued in such small numbers that it had become a curiosity...
...estimates that by printing 450 million two-spots a year, the Bureau could cut its $1 bill output in half and save $4 million. Conlon suggests leaving Thomas Jefferson on the face of the bill and engraving a Bicentennial theme on the back. The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration has endorsed the idea, and the Federal Reserve Board has commissioned the Harvard Business School to conduct a marketing survey of the $2 bill's public acceptability...
...spiraling teen-age crime, undercover agents have filtered into the schoolyard. One appeared -weirdly hooded and with a .38-cal. pistol tucked into her belt-before a congressional crime committee last week to testify on alleged drug abuse in New York City schools. She was Detective Kathleen Conlon, a petite 29-year-old who apparently looks young enough to pass for a teenager. That is just what she has done for the past three years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems...