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...inflationary period. Not at all by coincidence, the legislators who have the most to say about military spending-the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees-have been blessed over the years with substantial military business in their states and districts. Congressman George Mahon (House Appropriations) can point to the fact that Texas gets more business from the military than any other state except California (which gets $6.6 billion a year). South Carolina's Mendel Rivers (House Armed Services) can, and frequently does note that his home town of Charleston thrives as a result...
Democratic control would also leave the key House committees in familiar hands. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills would chair Ways and Means; Texas' George Mahon, Appropriations; South Carolina's Mendel Rivers, Armed Services; and Mississippi's William Colmer, Rules...
...example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates how to read and write as penance for their sins. In Panama, a popular American priest, Father Leo Mahon, has successfully combined Peace Corps techniques with preaching to help convert a slum named San Miguelito into a neat and hygienic community. The church in Ecuador is distributing 120,000 acres of its own land to peasants...
...have to do in or der to save this country from the possibility of chaos." Nonetheless, with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood to embark on an uncharted, unbudgeted program. "This is extravagant and unattainable," declared Texas Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "If you really got to tackling this thing, $100 billion wouldn't go very...
Predictably, congressional reaction split along geographical and ideological lines, though many legislators were keeping an open mind. While Mahon voiced the sentiment of the hard core rural and Southern areas, New York Democratic Representative Richard McCarthy spoke for the urban sector. "It is my hope," said he, "that the historians will not be looking back at me and the rest of us and declare that we constituted the 'Nero Congress' which took this report and did nothing about...