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...House Judiciary Committee, with 68 different budget-balancing schemes before it, held its first hearings last week and then recessed until later this spring. "Launching a turtle," scoffed a committee aide. Retorted Chairman Peter Rodino: "The turtle may go slowly, but it gets there...
...Peter W. Rodino Jr., Chairman...
...right in future elections. Mark Russell has launched a campaign for federal quality control of campaign humor at the source. "I'm introducing the Federal Joke Registration Act," he reports, "under which politicians must audition before a Federal Joke Review Board composed of Ed Muskie, John Gronouski, Peter Rodino, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Jordan." And Gerald Nachman has come up with a splendid suggestion. Presidential terms are too long and campaigns too infrequent, he feels, to overcome the soporific aftereffects of a pair like Ford and Carter. "It would be nice to have a new President every year...
...formal affirmation of the change was undramatic. Placed in nomination by New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino, whose high-pitched voice was ill-equipped to combat the hall's poor acoustics and chronically inattentive audience-but whose Italian background and Watergate impeachment role were subtly suited to the politics of the moment-Carter swept to his expected first-ballot nomination. Because Massachusetts, apparently confused on its vote count, at first abstained, the honor of putting Carter over the top fell fittingly to Ohio, where Carter's late primary victory wiped out all lingering vestiges of a stop-Carter movement...
...page job-application forms ("Have you ever been arrested? Have you ever been sued? Have you ever been divorced?"). Glenn was reported to have made a strong impression, but Carter also quizzed Henry Jackson in New York and was planning to meet other hopefuls, including Impeachment Star Peter Rodino and probably Adlai Stevenson and Frank Church...