The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 481

A ma MEDICAL CENTER A Freeman J. paomp3 life? Yes, there are. He's also brilliant, hard-working, conscientious. What can you say about a man who usually lunches late in the Sen- ate dining room and sits in the corner with the waitresses having their meal after the big rush? "They're very interesting women. They have sharp observations sometimes about what's going on in the Senate, and about some of the Senators.

You pick up some interesting gossip, too -which Senators are snotty, which are decent." He pays cash for the check rather than signing for it, because if you start signing the checks before you realize it you have a bill MAY 6, 1973 for twenty or thirty dollars. And Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in as the nation's 100th Senator at Wilmington (Del.) twenty or thirty dollars is a lot. Medical so he could be near his injured three-year-old son, Robert.

The boy can you say about a man was still in traction (right) from a leg fracture in an automobile accident What who bought himself another car be- that killed Biden's wife Neilia and 18-month-old daughter Biden's Amy. cause taking the Metroliner back and forth to Wilmington is too expensive? It is too expensive. Joe Biden is not poor-a Senator makes $42,500 a year but that's before taxes, and he's not rich either. "After the accident I didn't have a car. That was the Chevy, you know, and Yes we know.

Driving up the ramp out of the Senate parking garage, the Senator and the reporter and a couple of his staff people think about the Chevy for a minute. Neilia driving the station father-in-law, Robert Hunter, held the Bible as Frank Valeo, secretary of the U.S. Senate administered the oath..