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...Moreover, some of those committees spend more than the $3,000,000 allowable annually, Gardner charges. Next week Gardner will testify in Washington against the seniority system for picking congressional committee chairmen; one prominent House Democrat thinks that Common Cause can grasp enough of the power levers to get rid of seniority-"something we could never do without outside pressure...
Unsatisfied with City Manager John Corcoran's statement that he was appointing a three-man grievance committee to investigate the cases, the blacks left St. Paul's at 11 p.m. Jones said after the meeting, "We're going to go now to the state and federal level to get rid of this racist police department...
Though there was no sudden end in sight to the litany of plagues that turned 1970 into a year to be well rid of, there came scattered signs that at least the nation's economic illness may be turning into convalescence. That will be the best of any good news; a Louis Harris survey published this week found that more Americans are concerned about the economy than about any other issue. The Commerce Department reported that its economic leading indicators rose an average of 1% in November. November also saw an increase in help-wanted classified...
...REDUCING THE ARMED FORCES. It doesn't bother me. It means a million less bodies a year. It depends on what they are going to come up with. It doesn't take a division to run the bomber with the H-bomb. So let's get rid of the extra people. The butter is spread pretty thin anyway. All I am concerned with is that we have enough...
...anything for Pat." Leading the critics is Washington's great mouthpiece, Martha Mitchell, who recently added Connie to her list of early morning phone calls. Connie had neglected to give Martha credit as hostess for a luncheon attended by Mrs. Nixon. Declared Martha: "Connie is trying to get rid of me because I announced to the press that I called...