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...Americans really serious about wanting to improve their country? Ohio's Governor-elect John Gilligan has an idea to test their resolve. Last week on the campus of Kent State University, that monument to how wrong the nation's life can become, Gilligan announced that he will form a state volunteer corps, enlisting Ohio's 700,000 college students, to help part-time to clean up polluted streams, care for the sick, work with police and otherwise abandon their privacy to coax some improvement in their communities...
There are, to be sure, significant arguments in favor of seniority. It provides stability and expertness, it eliminates the possibility that outside pressure groups or cliques could elect compliant chairmen, and it guarantees access to power to representatives of minority groups-if they will only wait their turns. Without the seniority system, for example, it is doubtful that Harlem's flamboyant Adam Clayton Powell could ever have become head of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee. Moreover, it is by no means true that senior Congressmen are all incompetent or senile. One case in point is Carl Hayden...
Under the new plan, a student could elect to eat no more than 19 meals a week at a cost of $850 annually. A student who chooses to eat 9 to 15 meals weekly would pay $50 less than the present $800 fee, which is calculated on the basis of 13 meals a week...
...Congressman-elect Paul Spyros Sarbanes, a Marylander of Greek descent but no ally of the Vice-President's a respite from seven months of campaigning consists of leading a seminar at the Institute of Politics on spects of campaigns...
...irregular hours that are the city's normal working conditions provide built-in alibis for determined politicos. Some congressional wives elect to stay home rather than live in Washington at all?giving the capital a contingent of permanent "summer bachelors." But the motivated men of Government cannot afford to take three-hour lunches, and the traditional cinq-a-sept is out of the question for a 12-to 15-hour-day man. By all accounts, the sexual quotient of Republican Washington is low. The Democrats of the Kennedy and Johnson years?relaxed, open, pleased with themselves?were more insouciant about...