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Thomas Stephen Foley's succession to the chair of the Agriculture Committee represented a particular forking in the pathway of his career. As a protége of Senator Henry Jackson, and a popular Washington Congressman, he might have been tempted to run for the Senate if Jackson resigned his seat to campaign for the presidency. Not now: the revolution in the House against the seniority system has handed him, at age 45, an opportunity to block proposed rises in the cost of food stamps and to urge increased production of milk and cotton while keeping a floor under...
...that wears exceptionally well. In 22 years of political life, Grasso has not lost an election. A protégé of former Democratic National Chairman John Bailey and a product of one of the nation's best-oiled political machines, she served as secretary of state for twelve years and was twice elected to Congress. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she belongs to the state's largest ethnic group. Her husband Tom, a retired principal, is also an Italian American. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Mount Hoiyoke, Grasso speaks the language of the classroom...
Once the undraped star of underground films (Blue Movie, Lonesome Cowboys), Andy Warhol Protégée Viva is settling into tamer things these days. In her Topanga Canyon house in California, the slender, wide-eyed author of Superstar, a total-immersion confessional novel, is now completing a new book, The Baby, about her three-year-old daughter Alexandra. "She may be the most documented child in history," observes Viva, whose husband, French Film Maker Michel Auder, is engaged in a ten-year project to video-tape their daughter's early years. "I never did know what...
...tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and protégé, John Ehrlichman, into position as chief domestic-affairs adviser, the die was cast...
...Administrator John Sawhill. Once Simon's protégé, Sawhill is energy chief in name but has been unable to establish his pre-eminence in fact. One reason: alone among the three, he lacks Cabinet rank. He inherited an agency exhausted by Simon's punishing pace and bereft of the public attention it commanded during the oil shortage. Nonetheless, he has tried to act, in the words of one energy official, "like the crisis is still on and he is Bill Simon...