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Brown coach Bob Litchard always looks for the silver lining. He calls Jack Mc-Mahon, his quarterback, "as good as Bob Hall was as a freshman," and adds that his defense "hasn't lost a game...
...executioner of foreign aid bills, the chairman of his parent committee had been Missouri's curmudgeonly Clarence Cannon, another handout hater, who gave Passman a free hand to slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign aid. Passman found himself powerless. Where, in his heyday, subcommittee hearings had dragged...
Praise for Prudence. There was only one other problem-a G.O.P. attempt, prompted by the India-Pakistan hostilities, to cut off aid to any country in armed conflict with another U.S.-aided nation. Administration forces moved quickly to nip off the threat. Mahon took the floor, pointed out that under such a stricture, the U.S. could not send aid to India if it was invaded by Red China while fighting Pakistan. Warned Mahon: "It would be a horrendous thing for this Government to tie its hands under these circumstances." House Republican leaders, who had obviously overlooked such an eventuality, canceled...
...Democrats and Republicans. When it was chaired by Missouri's late Clarence Cannon, one of the crustiest old tightwads in House history, Appropriations often choked off extra funds for almost anything that smacked of liberal legislation. Cannon died last spring, and the chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura of conservatism about many of the 50 committee members. As for the 25-man Ways and Means Committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, it had a longtime tilt to the right too-enough so that...
...DOROTHY JACOBY MAHON St. Louis...