Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SURGE OF SERVICES They now account for 46% of G.N.P., up from 31% in 1950. It is harder to increase the productivity of a doctor, policeman, barber or bureaucrat than an assembly-line worker...
...South has not given up on Carter. It has simply become more critically observant. James David Barber, author of The Presidential Character and a Duke University political science professor, believes that recent events may finally have caused a "restoration of leadership" in the White House. Says he: "The follow-up is going to be everything...
This week two powerful members of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Republican Barber Conable and Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, will submit a bill calling for a very similar 5-10 depreciation plan. They have dropped the one-year aspect because it is too difficult and costly to determine what kind of federally mandated plant should qualify; for example, regulations require that elevators be installed in 20-story buildings, but no one thinks they should be written off in one year. The kind of expense on which business would like to have relief was highlighted last week when...
...serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...
...Republican counterparts view Kennedy in much the same mixed way. Says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative who often needles Kennedy about his forays to the right: "Ted has no experience or confidence in local government. He still thinks all the competency is in Washington." G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable also casts Kennedy as a centrist, a Big Government man but one who has stayed well within the mainstream of his own party. "Kennedy is a pragmatist, not an ideologue," says Conable...