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...part Morton makes no secret of the fact that he has long wanted the job. "It's a tremendous opportunity to move the power of the bureaucracy," he says. Morton has always been a mover within established systems. A Yale graduate, he successfully managed his Kentucky family's milling business and one of his older brother Thruston's campaigns for Senator. In the early 1950s, he moved to Maryland to be a gentleman farmer, but in 1962 he decided to run for Congress. Affable and articulate, he soon became a popular legislator, serving first on the Interior...
Special Pressure. Morton has firm ideas about the job ahead. He feels that the new Environmental Protection Agency (TIME, Nov. 23) will take care of law enforcement. Conservation, he says, will be his major responsibility. "It is a discipline. It must be practiced by all if it is to succeed. I hope I can make people aware of the problems and their solutions." Among his other thoughts...
There is little doubt that Rogers Morton today looks a great deal better than Wally Hickel did at a comparable time in his career. Nobody expects Morton to match Hickel's gusto, drive and independence. But many predict that he will be more politically effective. According to one of his friends, "Rog feels the pressure of Hickel's record. He will not want it said that when Hickel stood up, Morton caved in to special interests...
...most partisan when his beloved Cowboys were lurching toward a 38-0 drubbing from the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards jumped off to a quick 17-0 lead, and raucous Cowboy fans began screaming for Quarterback Craig Morton's scalp. "We want Meredith!" they chanted. Don, who had heard the same fans boo him on more than one occasion, sighed: "Man, you don't know what trouble is till you're 17 points behind in the Cotton Bowl...
...Morton soon threw a clothesline pass straight into the arms of a Cardinal defender. "Well," said Meredith wryly, "maybe he was the only man open." As the fans continued to call for him, Meredith grinned: "There's no way you're going to get me down on that field tonight." He apologized in the closing moments for "not doing a very good job tonight." In fact, his running comments saved an otherwise dull runaway ball game...