Presumably to keep members from heaving heavy objects at one another, the U.S. House of Representatives has a strict rule against any Congressman's uttering personal criticism of another. But last week the House sat silently while a young Republican bitterly denounced a Democratic committee chairman—and, in the process, scolded the House itself. The victim of the attack was Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (as usual, Powell was absent at the time). The attacker: second-termer John Milan Ashbrook, 34, attorney, Johnstown, Ohio, newspaper publisher and former national...
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