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...Alan Greenspan, 57, a frequent adviser to the Reagan White House and once Gerald Ford's chief economist. Others who were candidates, or fancied themselves candidates, are no longer being considered. Among them: Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Preston Martin and Treasury Under Secretary Beryl Sprinkel...
...recycles grotesques reminiscent of Myra Breckinridge. He also programs a lot of cultural software: the racially balanced TV news team, the English butler from Duluth's elegant Garfield Heights section who asks a visitor, "Whom shall I say is calling she?" and the ludicrous prose of costume romance-"Beryl flares her nostrils inadvertently, an effect not unlike that of a pomme soufflée getting its second wind." There are also efforts to get laughs from the subject of comparative genitalia...
...think that a former banker should head the Federal Reserve, which oversees the nation's banks. But then he explained, "Actually, no one ever offered me the job." Also mentioned, but only as long shots: Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, 64, and Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs Beryl Sprinkel, 59, an ardent monetarist...
...luck of those pure souls who chase White Goddesses, was unharmed. Riding left Graves on the eve of World War H to live with Schuyler Jackson, an American farmer with a Princeton degree and literary leanings. They eventually went into the fruit business in Wabasso, Fla. Graves married Beryl Hodge, had four more children and continued to pursue younger goddesses from Majorca to Mexico...
...tried to shift blame for the deficit-driven interest rates to the Federal Reserve. Speaking to Washington editors, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan renewed longstanding assertions that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was failing to hold the growth of money and credit to a slow and stable course. Shortly thereafter, Beryl Sprinkel, the Treasury's Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, let it be known that his department was studying ways to make the Fed more responsive to Administration wishes...