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...revanchists? The market is betting against reform. Demand for anyone with access to powerful Democrats on the Hill is soaring. Lobbyists who couldn't get a meeting are suddenly a hot commodity. "I've gotten a lot of calls from headhunters in the last two months," says Florence Prioleau, a lobbyist who has maintained close ties with her former boss, New York's Charles Rangel, incoming chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Pelosi's former chief of staff, George Crawford, has just been hired by Amgen, a biotech company, to represent its interests with the new Congress. Toby Moffett...
Other students are less tense, but just as determined. "If I do badly, at least on a computer game, I can hit the reset button if I'm doing badly," says Kyle O. Prioleau '89 of Eliot House. However he refuses to face the psychological implications of his actions: "I think I have a power complex--yeah, right...
Shrewd, good-humored James Prioleau Richards, special ambassador and onetime (1933-56) South Carolina Congressman, charged by the President with explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Mideast governments, got a sudden change in signals last week. While Richards was in Greece, the word came through from the White House: Come Home...
...Addis Ababa is an unlikely place to find a man who retired to a South Carolina farm this year to spend the rest of his life "fishing and hunting, and lying in the sun, and watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...Reversing the flow of Middle East traffic, President Eisenhower last week picked former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Prioleau Richards, 62, as a $20,000-a-year special assistant, gave him the chairmanship of a special U.S. mission to explain Eisenhower foreign policy to Middle Eastern nations. South Carolinian Richards, who retired from Congress last week after 23 years in the House, has a formidable reputation on Capitol Hill, at the White House and abroad: last year he led a successful fight to trim $1 billion from the foreign aid bill, repeatedly called on the Administration to produce...