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Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the Ali-Frazier championship fight that prompted an excess of macho in Washington. The news trickled out that during the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an evening of ritual satire offered by the capital's newsmen, House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, 57, was decked with one punch in a Statler-Hilton men's room by Indiana Republican (and former Congressman) Edward Mitchell, 60, supposedly because he objected to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration...
...Buren wore a brace of pistols to preside over the Senate. In the terms of Charles Reich (The Greening of America), this was not even Consciousness I, but Consciousness ½. A day or two after the Boggs-Mitchell match, the former's House colleague, Edward Hebert, telephoned: "Hale, Hale, sign nothing! Don't do a thing till I get the closed-circuit rights...
...million in tax money already invested. Both the galleries and the floor of the House were packed-a rarity in that chamber-as the SST debate neared its close. The strong feeling on both sides was audible. A guttural murmuring of distaste swept the floor as Democratic Floor Leader Hale Boggs harangued the House in support of the aircraft and was caught fudging about previous House votes on the plane by its principal House opponent, Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates. "If you vote for the SST," shouted Republican Leader Gerald Ford, "you are insuring 13,000 jobs today plus...
...Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen spoke for many: "My conversations with my state's delegation lead me to believe that our chances of getting federal revenue sharing without strings attached are virtually nil." McKeithen's is no ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding "the unified, massive...
Thanks to mergers, International Controls has since swelled into a mini-conglomerate, with sales of $100 million, 4,000 employees and 31 factories that make aircraft parts, bomb casings, radar components and dozens of other items. "We've built ourselves on financial agility," boasts Vesco. He persuaded Hale Bros. Associates, a San Francisco investment firm that controls the Broadway-Hale department store chain, to become an early backer by buying $80,000 of stock. I.C.C. was one of the first U.S. firms to tap the hoard of Eurodollars, raising $25 million through an issue of debentures...