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...food found in his family's business. Now completing his first full term in Congress, Republican Heinz represents a Pennsylvania district that embraces both aristocratic exurbs and grimy mill towns. He specializes in health and environmental affairs, has toiled to keep his Pittsburgh-area fences in good repair, and is a shoo-in for reelection. A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School, Heinz is a moderate who has fought with the Administration to end U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and to secure funds for the national Community Mental Health Centers Program...
...special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger or Moët et Chandon (solution: serve both) and the arrangement of bushels of country flowers was at least as exhausting as Mayor de Rothschild's more commonplace concerns, such as the town's road repair. At the end of it all, she said distractedly, there may be "plus de maire et plus de mère"-no more mayor and no more mother left...
...Simpson: "We're not a captive of anybody." Under Simpson, the CPSC has moved against exploding soda-pop bottles, easily shattered glass doors, poorly wired electrical appliances. In its first year of operation the CPSC has forced a total of 15 million product units off the market for repair or replacement...
...Maugards rent their two-story, three-bedroom house, a former vicarage, for $100 a month. They have repaired its worst defects, but there is no central heating. Two space heaters fight a losing battle against the damp cold of a Norman winter. "The chimney is cracked, and the mayor won't repair anything," she says. "The septic tank smells terrible, and we're crowded together. My two smallest children sleep in the same bedroom as my husband and I." Their grounds are ample, however. The Maugards are able to eat their own chickens, turkeys and rabbits, as well...
...floodtide of outrage and indignation as ever-growing numbers of Nixon supporters abandoned him in Congress and the nation. Resignation rumors were spawned faster than the White House could deny them, and a mood of crisis gripped Washington. Nixon's moral authority and ability to govern seemed shattered beyond repair. By all the usual political omens, Nixon had lost the most audacious gamble in his political career and with it, in all likelihood, his chance of serving.out his term of office...