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...describing current conditions, the board members were unusually blunt. "The economy is probably in the worst shape that it has been in for nearly half a century," said Eckstein. Added Walter Heller, an economics professor at the University of Minnesota who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "This is the deepest and most dangerous recession of the postwar period." Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., joined the gloomy chorus: "We are sitting here in the midst of a major depression...
...Martins' personal relationships: old bosses are equals, old pals are subordinates who must sometimes be disappointed. "It's a tough time now. We still think that Mr. B. will walk in Tuesday at 11," he says. He shifts the pillows under his back and adds in his blunt, candid way, "I don't know how the hell I'll do it all, but I can exercise diplomacy like nobody else...
...official review of the city's traditional creche sponsorship, and the city manager's office is expected to respond with a recommendation by Monday. Quick action is in order. Cambridge should dissociate itself with the Brattle Square Nativity display in keeping with the Rhode Island ruling and the blunt First Amendment stipulation prohibiting government activity "respecting an establishment of religion." Designed to prevent Congress or municipalities from advocating a particular spiritual belief, that passage clearly requires a city to refrain from even tacit endorsement of the Christian faith...
...been expected to put his own stamp on the party hierarchy almost immediately, but he made only two important appointments last week. In his first major speech as General Secretary, he offered no bold initiatives in domestic or foreign policy, although he did surprise the Soviets with an unusually blunt critique of the way in which the country's ailing economy is managed...
Only one vitally important officeholder remained exempt from the democratic process: Brazil's fifth consecutive military-appointed President, João Baptista Figueiredo, 64, who will not step down until 1985. Before the voting, Figueiredo, a folksy, blunt-spoken former cavalry general, hailed the elections as a vindication of his three-year policy of abertura (opening), the promise of a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil. Said he: "We're going to stuff the opposition with democracy until they get indigestion...