National Affairs: Capital Notes

Porch Light. Indiana's Freshman Democratic Congressman Randall S. Harmon, 55, who has been collecting $100 a month from the Government for renting out his own front porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis."

Bronx Cheer. Another Congressman, New York Democrat Charles...

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