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Among the House's 34 committees, there is a special committee on committees, chaired by Jerry Patterson, 45, a bright and popular Democrat from Santa Ana, Calif. After six weeks of hearings, Patterson's group recommended creating an entirely new committee that would have prime jurisdiction over energy bills. The House leadership approved. Out of chaos would come some order...
...Patterson's plans soon ran into powerful opposition from the two rival committee chairmen who had sponsored the two rival energy plans. One was Arizona's lanky Mo Udall, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. A dedicated conservationist, he has fought for safeguards to protect the environment. The other was Michigan's short-tempered John Dingell, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He has strongly favored sweeping away state and federal regulations on energy matters...
Faced with mounting opposition, Patterson formed an alliance of his own with the House Republicans, who also wanted a strong energy committee. Patterson worked out an extraordinary ploy: once his measure got on the floor, the Republicans and whatever Democrats Patterson could round up would vote to "save" the resolution by making it tougher...
...batteries. But, is it worth it? Muhammad Ali is no longer the fighter he once was. A young and enthusiastic Cassius Clay, with the quick hands and feet that never touched the canvas, has become a chunky Muhammad Ali. The stomach muscles that withstood the barrages of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman now hang over his belt. The face which had never been cut, unmarked all these years, was split open in a sparring session last week. Time has taken its toll...
Such words touched off angry responses. The Gardners, incensed by Terrace's "weasel talk" and "innuendo," considered suing him. Patterson accused Terrace of "rather muddleheaded methodology." But some of the other researchers are taking a long, hard look at their own work. Premack, now at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that Terrace's tactic of trying to treat Nim like a human baby was "silly and ill-advised," but he agrees that animals are incapable of spontaneous conversation. The Rumbaughs maintain that their more recent experiments preclude the possibility of trainers giving cues, consciously or sub consciously...