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Students on the South House Facilities Committee who met yesterday with Frank A. Lawton, assistant dean of facilities, said he was "very receptive" to their ideas of painting and rewiring, getting larger bookshelves and putting in showers where needed in South House...
Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean of the Faculty for facilities, said the fire escapes met state regulations when they were installed, but because state codes change frequently the structures might not meet current standards...
...current fire-escapes in the Yard are all still legal, however, because the codes do not apply to structures that already existed when the codes were adopted, Lawton said. He added, however, that the fire escapes remain a source of concern...
...questioning continued into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens...
...answers at face value. Ohio Democrat John Glenn wondered whether "Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles declared that the committee was giving him "our sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval." It was clearly a reprieve for Lance, but not the final verdict. A more thorough probe of the Chicago loan by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency may be completed...