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...Council on Wage and Price Stability. Acting Director William Lilley III asked National for production, cost and profit-and-sales data and said the market appears to be no stronger than last summer. COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain-and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines...
...each course--along with its examination group and whether Friday's class is optional--the anticipated dollar return. On study cards, students will compute their combined price earnings ratio for the term. Excerpts from the revised "prospectus" of courses demonstrate that the faculty knows the value of a buck...
Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original King Kong, must be turning in his grave...
...that department, amidst the CIA coverage he's been drawing. Harvard's Bill Emper, who stuck to Farnham like Dentu-Grip last year at Providence, will most likely cover him alone today, a job about as desirable as being Robert Dole's joke writer. Whether Farnham makes a buck-private out of Harvard's captain in the confrontation remains to be seen...
...Buck Passers. The maritime unions were propelled into the spotlight in late September when Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff began investigating reports that President Ford had made illegal use of union campaign contributions. Ford had indeed received legal campaign contributions from the unions, and Ruff last week cleared him of any wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant...