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...next year. "He faces a terrible temptation to heat things up," says Thomas Ayers, the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison. "I hope he chooses a moderate course." Declares Norman Robertson, senior vice president and chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "If he should try to adopt the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [which calls for heavy spending on public-service employment] or something like it, trying to reach a predetermined level of unemployment too quickly, this could seriously worsen inflation. One wonders what restraint can there be on a liberal Congress. President Ford vetoed spending programs that...
Last week 16 American, European and Japanese economists, meeting at Washington's Brookings Institution, called on the world's three economic heavyweights-the U.S., Germany and Japan-to adopt more expansive policies, such as tax cuts and increased government spending. A failure to get the major economies moving again, the experts indicated, could dangerously increase social and political tensions, especially in other economically bedeviled nations, such as Britain, Italy and, to a lesser degree, France. Moreover, almost all economists agree that a slump in Europe would be bad news for the U.S. Says Lawrence Klein, President-elect Carter...
Single rooms--those rarities enjoyed mostly by seniors and Quad-dwellers--will become a bit rarer next year when Lowell House becomes the fifth River House to adopt a no-singles rooming policy...
Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and chairman of the committee, said yesterday if the Faculty decides to adopt the measure, it will have to do so before Christmas to allow the University time to adjust its schedule to the change...
...Herald named Robert C. Bergenheim. Bergenheim has started to overhaul the paper, and his first real change was seen on October 18. There had long been reports that the Herald would change over to a new kind of typesetting equipment and printing process, or that it would adopt a new format. The Hearst people had imported a British graphics expert who redesigned the paper's makeup style and chose different typefaces for headlines...