Word: longworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill sent to the Oval Office is the product of a joint House-Senate committee that began meeting late last week in the Ways and Means Committee's ornate, high-ceilinged conference room in the House's Longworth Office Building. The task of these ten Representatives and 14 Senators was to reconcile the vastly differing tax bills that each chamber had passed. While the Representatives' version, approved last month, would have saved taxpayers $16.3 billion, the Senate expanded the cut to $29.3 billion...
...House Rose Garden, bordered with Queen Elizabeth roses. Under a gleaming white canopy and with TV cameras recording the event (see SHOW BUSINESS & TV), 224 guests gathered in a dazzle of diamonds and a cloud of pastel-tinted chiffon and crepe. Among them were Lady Bird Johnson, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Telly Savalas (star of Kojak, the Queen's favorite TV program), Olympic Skater Dorothy Hamill and White House Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan, who escorted TV's Barbara Walters...
...sought out a Post reporter she had met by chance. Reporters found her in a luxurious unnumbered office in the new Longworth House Office Building. It has only two desks, while a dozen staffers are crammed next door into New York Democrat Bella Abzug's similar-size quarters. Liz claims she rarely bothered to go to the office. Indeed, she lived in a cheaply furnished apartment in suburban Arlington, Va., where shopkeepers at Vincent & Vincent Boutique recall her as a leisurely midweek shopper who showed no concern about being away during office hours...
...about the era and the social milieu in which the person grew up, like a trip backwards in time and vertically in class. And since the celebrities are ordered alphabetically, you get some pretty stranged juxtapositions. One minute you're at the White House with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who always thought kissing was "a disgusting habit" and seems fairly contemptuous of the whole subject and the next minute you're in Butcher Hollow, Ky., with Loretta Lynn, who got married at the age of 13 knowing so little about sex that by the time she was 17 she had four...
...daughter Susan: "At first the idea of the presidency scared us, especially the kids. We were afraid we would become too public, that everyone would get wrapped up in their own things and we wouldn't be a family any more." Her stoutest encouragement came from Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 91, who still remembers when she herself moved into the White House at the age of 17. Said she to Susan: "Have a helluva good time...