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...ousted Congressman Adam Clayton Powell's propensity for public sin, it suggests that House members conduct themselves "in a manner which shall reflect creditably" on the House, and that a Representative accept no compensation for using his influence improperly. It called for a review of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, under which no one has been convicted since its passage in 1925. It also asked members to list firms in which they own a substantial interest ($5,000 or more) or which produce an income to them of $1,000 or more per year...
...must rely heavily on a stylized comedy technique borrowed wholesale from vintage Cary Grant. Overpraised for his character acting in this and Huston's earlier Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Bogart was greatest in the romantic Hawks-Hammett-Hemingway world of the individual pitting personal morality against an inherently corrupt society, the ultimate success being the maintenance of personal self-respect...
...show I am fit to handle that kind of responsibility and I would have more freedom to do as I please. But I could not take a position of influence if the only way to do it would be to perpetuate a system which in many respects I find corrupt, ineffectual, impersonal. The threat involved in keeping under the system is that I have no outside base from which to keep outside of it to criticize it. I would just become completely enmeshed in it and my personal values would be changed to fit along with...
...Governor, John A. Volpe. But besides presenting a new image, Bay State Republicans may have discovered an ingenious way of circumventing federal and state laws prohibiting corporation contributions to political parties. Massachusetts' attorney general, a Republican, conveniently ruled that corporations could purchase the book in quantity without violating corrupt-practice laws, which were tightened in 1966 by the Tax Adjustment Act to prevent companies from making contributions by buying advertisements for political fund-raising functions. Already, 30 corporations have placed enough bulk orders for the $12.50 volume, which has no advertisements, to cover the party...
Star Student. Podhoretz attributes his belated decision to what he sees as a contradiction in the American ethos: it commands men to seek an abundance of worldly goods, he says, at the same time that it warns them that the search will corrupt their souls. When he majored in English literature at Columbia University, for example, he remembers being confronted by the cult of failure that imbued most of his fellow students. They felt that while sex was a natural and admirable passion, a hunger for worldly success was ignoble. For a star student who wanted to be a great...