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...Congressional ethics, limelighted by the House's exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell and the Senate's censure of Thomas Dodd, remained conspicuously unfinished business. Although both chambers now have special committees assigned to writing ethics codes, neither group brought one to the floor...
Even after the Senate censured him, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd went ahead with plans to bring a libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Most lawyers knew, however, that he had little chance of success in the wake of the Supreme Court's 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which makes it all but impossible for a public official to win libel suits unless he can prove malice by the defendant. Recognizing that fact, Dodd last week withdrew the libel action, though he continued to press suit against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing...
...entirely different from the case of Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, who was censured by the Senate in June for using $116,083 accumulated at testimonial dinners for paying liquor bills, home improvements and other personal expenses. That did not prevent Tom Dodd from sniping last week: "It seems strange to me that Percy was so critical of my friends' raising money...
...moving through the crowd like the eye of a hurricane, an oasis of calmness"), Walter Judd ("Is there anywhere a more impressive American?"). Of all of Buckley's hang-ups, two of the worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning of a very long period of bitterness against the gang of flagitious moralizers who conspired against a brave and simple man of distinguished public record and found him guilty by bill of attainder...
...ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of eight NBC news specials outlining the American Profile. Ed Dodd, conservationist and creator of the Mark Trail cartoon strip, narrates this study of the various animals and birds in danger of extinction...