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...partly responsible for reinforcing the Nixonian optimism. Arthur Laffer, 30, an associate professor on leave from the University of Chicago to serve as the OMB economist, has been in Washington for only three months. Few but Shultz seem convinced that Laffer's analytic methods are correct, but the academician's ideas have nonetheless provided Shultz with a basis to defend the Administration's forecast against doubts voiced by the Council of Economic Advisers...
Francoise replied to the public and private sniping in kind. When it was suggested that she might feel or look silly in the academician's green and black costume and cocked hat, she countered: "The frivolity of men never ceases to astonish me. All they want to talk about is clothes...
Intellectual Sensation. Brezhnev's angry accusations have inspired thoughtful replies from a number of prominent Soviet citizens. One of the most compelling responses was circulating last week among intellectuals in Moscow. Some thought that it came from Academician Andrei Sakharov, the gifted physicist whose 10,000-word essay outlining a scenario of economic convergence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union created a sensation among intellectuals 18 months ago. Others believed that it was written by someone who knows and shares the physicist's view, though not necessarily by Sakharov himself. Sakharov was removed from work requiring security...
...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...
...Army is ever going to disguise the purely military subject in its curricula (there are two curricula in existence now and a third under development) to nullify the severe academicians who demand social science type subjects for officer training, is a problem of impressive magnitude. Personally, I am convinced that the problem cannot be solved completely without vitiating the Army ROTC program as it is now conceived. At the same time, I am convinced that there is sufficient validity in the Army's current Modified Curriculum, when evaluated intoto, to meet the academician's demand for college-level subject matter...