Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While West German officials watched nervously, Jordan's King Hussein recently sped round and round a Stuttgart test track in a Mercedes 230 SL sports car, so enthralled that he refused to continue his tour of a nearby assembly plant. The products of Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz A.G. have proved irresistible not only to Hussein but to enough other kings and commoners to make Daimler Europe's third-ranked automaker and the Continent's biggest manufacturer of trucks and buses. Half the "big" cars-with engines larger than 1.7 liters-and half the trucks on German...
...again, on-again Bobby Baker hearings before the Senate Rules Committee were off again. Democratic Committee Chairman Everett Jordan, who had staved off further Baker sessions through Election Day, adjourned the committee again-this time until Congress reconvenes next month...
...about all Jordan has proved is that he will never be any great shakes as a Senate investigator. In hearings only last week, Jordan actually forgot that he was chairman of the committee, cleared his throat and began: "Er, Mr. Chairman ..." A further example of general ineptness came when the committee tried to pursue the charge that Democratic Wheelhorse Matt McCloskey had indirectly made a $35,000 payoff to Baker. They put McCloskey's auditor on the stand, only to discover that they had the wrong auditor...
About the best Jordan could offer was a committee decision to call to the stand Walter Jenkins, who resigned as a top White House aide last October after his arrest on a morals charge. He would be called, said Jordan, "at an appropriate time." At the moment Jenkins was playing golf in Puerto Rico...
...investigation was reactivated last October to study the charge by Senator Williams (R-Del.) that builder Matthew McCloskey, a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, made an illegal $25,000 campaign contribution in 1960 through Baker. It adjourned after five days of hearings began again. But Chairman Jordan has limited testimony to the McCloskey affair. He has refused once again to probe directly Baker's dealings with Senators...