Word: rooney
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Died. John J. Rooney, 71, once one of the ruling powers in Congress as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments and the Judiciary; after surgery at Georgetown University Hospital; in Washington, D.C. The blunt-speaking, tightfisted Brooklynite, who served in the House of Representatives from 1944 until his retirement last year, was famous for his sardonic attacks on State Department expense accounts, which he dubbed "booze allowances for cookie pushers...
Although he is a veteran of seven marriages and seven divorces, Actor Mickey Rooney seems determined to keep repeating that big wedding scene. So it was hardly surprising when a Hong Kong tabloid reported last week that Rooney, 54, had settled on Wife No. 8. "At long last I've found the girl of my dreams," the newspaper reported Mickey as saying, adding that he planned to wed Jan Chamberlain, 25, a singer-composer whom he has known for eight years. Not surprising, perhaps, to anyone but the supposed groom, who is now in Hong Kong working...
...Rooney Goes to Washington, Veteran TV Writer-Producer Andrew A. Rooney is allowed to poke into agency offices, asking impertinent questions and sizing up the federal establishment. The winner of an Emmy and other awards, Rooney has written TV essays on such subjects as doors, chairs and bridges. His beat is not politics, and at first his meanderings through the capital seem almost pointless. Yet he is a master at extricating the revealing from the commonplace, and he soon accumulates enough eccentric encounters to indicate that Franz Kafka would feel at home in Washington today...
...Replies. Rooney visits the General Services Administration to ask for a list of Government-owned buildings in Washington; GSA demands $150 for the index. He attends a ceremony honoring Government workers for cutting down on paper but begins to realize that the occasion has generated reams of memorandums and press releases...
Repeatedly, Rooney tries to phone one private contractor who is presumably performing the innocent task of rewriting all Navy technical manuals on a 9th-grade reading level; no one will talk to Rooney. He stops by to chat with Admiral Frederick Palmer, who is directing the textbook project for the Navy. The Admiral admits that he is not familiar with the name of the company or the contents of the study. Rooney drops in on a congressional committee session to hear a New Hampshire Congressman defend disaster relief for people in ski areas where there is no snow. The reporter...