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...Grant M. Ujifusa '64 is an expert on the Congress. As co-author of "The Almanac of American Politics" he has spent years studying election returns, voting records, ideological trends, and congressional personalities...
Most congressmen are afraid to act on the impeachment issue, Ujifusa said, because they are not sure what their constituents want. He said the president's resignation would please many congressmen on both sides of the aisle...
...Ujifusa said the report of the House Judiciary Committee, which is now investigating Nixon for impeachable offenses, will be crucial to the success of the drive to oust the president. If the report supports impeachment, he said, then many members of the House may be unwilling to take the risk of stopping the impeachment effort...
...been a demographics adept since he was seven. "I can still remember the excitement of coming across the census figures for 1940 and 1950," he says. "It was like nothing else existed." His collaborators: Douglas Matthews, 27, a liberal Republican who is now studying law at Harvard, and Grant Ujifusa, 29, a political independent and third-generation Japanese American, who is now taking a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown...
Publishing companies showed little interest until Ujifusa got the attention of an obscure Boston house called Gambit, Inc., which dropped its spring book list to get the Almanac published. It has become a word-of-mouth bestseller already. In the six weeks before publication date (Feb. 24), 25,000 copies in hard-cover ($12.95) and paperback ($4.95) have already been sold. Apparently there is an audience for political specifics that run the gamut from a district-by-district breakdown of federal spending to a concise catalogue of the nation's top 50 defense contractors and their yearly earnings from...