Who Runs Congress Editorial Review
The piece assesses Ralph Naders Congress Project and its first book Who Runs Congress. It notes lack of new information, questions raised by early critiques, and previews upcoming senator and representative profiles for re election. The review calls the book urgent yet not eye opening, praising readability but urging judgment on the Raiders project.
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Mark Twain
Congress
Will Rogers
Ralph Nader
Nader
Clark ‘Wain
Congress Project
Bantam Books
OIC leader Sullivan backs fundraising to aid centers
Rev Leon H Sullivan leads Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America in staging over 40 dinners on Oct 11 to raise 1 million for training, still emphasizing inclusion of Chicanos and white Appalachians. A Hollywood New York TV event features stars like Bob Hope and Ray Charles broadcast from the Palladium and Waldorf Astoria. Tickets priced at 1.40 dollars, available through OIC trainees and Wilshire HQ.
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General Motors
America
Sullivan
OIC
Palladium
Hollywood
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Bob Hope
Sammy Davis Jr
Dick Gregory
Carroll O’connor
Ray Charles
Gene Kelly
Duke Ellington
Leon Bibb
Lionel Hampton
Ramsey Lewis
OFC
Long Beach
New York St
Alamitos Ave
Los Angeles
Wilshire Blvd
Letters to the editor seek volunteers for elderly care
A reader suggests county ads and leaflets in medical and beauty venues to recruit warm and healthy volunteers to help one lonely elderly person. A nurse offers limited at home services for her three teens and may volunteer a few hours weekly. A second letter praises Paolo Soleri’s arcology exhibit at the Long Beach Art Museum urging public viewing before October 29.
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County Health Department
Lakewood
Charloie Olivier
Mitchell resigning over Watergate factors cited by friends
Washington July 1 friends say John Mitchell privately concedes Watergate influenced his exit as Nixon campaign manager. He publicly denies prior knowledge of the bugging, but insiders say the scandal and wife Martha’s demands pushed him from politics to avoid criticism while remaining a behind the scenes adviser.
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Mitchell
Washington
John WN. Mitchell
Nixon
Martha
Democratic National Committee
White House
Mitchll
Maurice Stans
G. Gordon Liddy
Finance Committee
Lame duck Byrne to take family on European junket
Congressman James Byrne plans a final taxpayer funded trip to Europe with his wife and two nieces and an escort. The State Department suggests high officials attend arrivals and a separate itinerary with English speaking escorts. Byrne is a defeated lame duck and won’t return to Congress.
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Europe
Washington
James Aloysius Byrne
Philadelphia
State Department
Mediterranean
Byrne
Virginia Manwell
Christine Brown
ASA
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Nice
Genoa
Leichtesgaden
John Irwin
Celler recalls 50 years with nine presidents
Congressman Emanuel Celler, 84, reflecting in the speaker's lobby, lists nine White House occupants he has seen during five decades in Congress. He recalls Harding, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, noting their temperaments and his battles over civil rights with several of them.
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Washington
Rep
Emanuel Celler
White House
Calvin Coolidge
Brooklyn
Coolidge
Celler
House
Elizabeth Holtziman
Congress
Carl Vinson
House Judiciary Committee
Warren G. Harding
Geller
Tierbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cetler
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Harry S.truman
Senate
Truman
Israel
America
Celter
Eisenhower
Commission On Civil Rights
Justice Department
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
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USA
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Athens
Istambul
Mets Berchtsgaden
Munich
Rer 3
Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital
Veterans Administration
Blackhawk Heating and Plumbing
General Accounting Office
John Murphy
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GAO
Blackhawk
Blackhak
Gordon Sutherland
Merry
Jack Anderson
Richard L. Madden
New York Times Service
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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