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...already proficient enough in their MOS (military occupation specialty) to make schooling unadvisable. Great numbers of RFA clerks, typists, and mechanics generally fall into this category. For the most part, these men "have it made," with frequent passes and privileges, such as having cars on post, but they often receive very little training. They generally spend their remaining four months of training time taking care of the menial tasks wherever they were assigned. Officers and enlisted men, alike, hesitated to spend much time teaching these men anything when they knew they would be gone as soon as they learned enough...
...party's House committee assignments. These are as vital to the career of every Congressman as they are to the efficient operation of House machinery. Through Mills, Rayburn can see to it that a promising youngster gets a good committee. If he kicks loose from the party traces too often, a Gentleman from Iowa, say, may find himself a member of the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee ("I don't mind them voting against the party sometimes," says Rayburn, "but I don't like it to be chronic...
Senate Sins. The tragedy of Clarence Cannon's life is that the U.S. Senate so often restores the budget cuts he has made. "The Senate piles everything on earth on these bills." he grumps, "and they always wait until the last minute to do it." Cannon always wants the House to insist on its cuts in conference committee. "Sam Rayburn says, 'Hell, we've got to get out of here.' I always say we can't accept this change. But Sam always says we've got to get the hell out of here...
...heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo. The records show only that he was born in Paris on Nov. 30, 1934, of unknown parents...
Paulo, emerging from hiding, moved into an apartment in suburban Neuilly that was owned by Jacques Walter, son of his dead stepfather. He was often seen in bistros in the 16th arrondissement with his pretty blonde prostitute girl friend. Marie-Thérèse Goyenetch, 22, nicknamed "Maïté." One day, as Maïté was leaving her small hotel near the Etoile, a man thrust a card into her hand, said: "There's money in it for you." The card bore the telephone number of Jean Lacaze, Dominique's brother...