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Pearson and Anderson concentrate much of their fire on L. Mendel Rivers, the crustaceous South Carolina Congressman, and on Connecticut's Senator Thomas J. Dodd. They cite Rivers as a classic example of the seniority system gone awry. A man of limited talent, Rivers rose to his exalted position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee only through the process of aging and the political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service...
Disintegrated Man. Their case against Dodd is more persuasive here because it seems less petty and vindictive than it did in the some 50 columns they wrote on the subject. In a not unsympathetic review of Dodd's career, the authors acknowledge his early promise and courage. They feel that his later troubles were due largely to the "permissiveness and indulgence" of the Senate, an atmosphere in which Dodd's integrity faltered. How he sank ever more deeply into the debt of assorted acquisitive interests makes grim reading indeed. In return for favors in the Senate...
Thurmond further emasculated the weaker Dodd bill with six amendments, similar to those in the House, before the Judiciary Committee reported...
Capitalizing on Congress' receptive mood, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd's Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee voted unanimously to send the President's bill banning mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will tackle the issue this week. The House Judiciary Committee, which deadlocked 16 to 16 on the Johnson bill only two weeks ago, passed it by a 29-to-6 vote...
Everett-on-the-Spot. Most significant was the soul-searching among Senators, many of them Western liberals who have long bowed to N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican...