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...Schweiker announced that he was resigning his $80,100-a-year post to become president of the American Council of Life Insurance, a lobbying group that represents 572 of the nation's life insurance companies. He will be succeeded at the agency (1983 budget: $276 billion) by Margaret Heckler, 51, a moderate Republican who served eight terms as Representative from Massachusetts until her defeat last November. Schweiker, whose new salary is reported to be in the low six figures, startled the White House with his sudden departure. Said a presidential aide: "It came as a surprise even to Dick...
...Heckler, a scrappy, hard-nosed politician, will be the second woman to join the Cabinet, after Elizabeth Dole, who begins her job as Transportation Secretary next month. Heckler's past criticisms of the President's economic program and her support of the Equal Rights Amendment have led some hard-core conservatives to doubt her ideological purity. Heckler is expected to play an important role in selling Congress on solutions to such volatile issues as abortion and Social Security. But she has questioned the effectiveness of an HHS proposal requiring that parents be notified when minors receive contraceptives from...
...Osborne decided to produce his own personal computer. A year later the Osborne 1 appeared. Weighing only 24 lbs., it was packaged in a plastic case, could be tucked under an airline seat and carried a price tag of $1,795, including a valuable library of software. The erstwhile heckler had produced the first truly portable business computer...
EAST. One of the most expensive House races in the entire country pitted Incumbents Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat, and Margaret Heckler, a moderate Republican, against each other in a Massachusetts constituency drastically changed by redistricting. Frank once likened running in the district, 70% of whose voters had been represented by Heckler, to "acting out a speaking part in my own mugging." But he put together a highly effective organization that spent around $1.2 million and tirelessly denounced Heck ler's votes for Reagan's economic policies. Heckler wound up spending more than $600,000, but could...
Happily, some of the worst advertising failed or even boomeranged. Beard and Cost were both defeated. In Massachusetts, Republican Margaret Heckler lost her House race to Democrat Barney Frank in part because of her ads charging that Frank, while a state legislator, had favored prostitution and pornography; Frank in fact had voted for a bill to set up adult-entertainment zones where police could more easily monitor those activities. Half the voters questioned in exit polls conducted by station WBZ-TV called Heckler's ads objectionable...