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...Richard Nixon who assembled proud organizational experts to build a super executive machine. The leader of that machine, Roy Ash, is under assault for some of his actions as president of Litton Industries in his pre-White House days...
...frump having an embarrassing amount of trouble hanging on to her husband, played by Henry Fonda. What to do? Why, radical plastic surgery, of course, from head to toe. Even after all that, however, Hank will still have none of her. That's the story line for Ash Wednesday, just filmed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. A bit sad but not very credible, since the wife is played by Elizabeth Taylor, who looks lovelier than ever as she emerges from her bandages...
Union men already are vocally angry about the economic situation. Last week AFL-CIO Chief George Meany charged the Administration with using "the big-lie technique" to cover its economic bumbling. Meany singled out a New York Times article signed by Budget Director Roy Ash, which offers a series of glowing statistics and assertions...
Most are at worst debatable or subject to varying interpretations, but one is simply wrong. Ash claimed that the rate of inflation is only 2.9% "today," but Government figures show that prices rose at a 6% annual rate in the first quarter, according to the most comprehensive measure. The article was written in the White House publicity mill, which called the inaccuracy a "typing error...
...Ash also contended that "confidence for the future is high"-but last week the University of Michigan Survey Research Center reported the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the 22 years that it has been taking soundings. Its index fell from 90.8 at the end of 1972 to 80.8 in February and March of this year. Consumers are deeply afraid of both further inflation and future recession. Ironically, these very ideas are making people rush to buy appliances, cars and houses before prices go even higher and before bad times come; such scare buying tends to prompt exactly the price...