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Andrew Felton Brimmer, 47, was the Federal Reserve Board's Jackie Robinson. In 1966, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Harvard-trained economist as the first black among the board's seven governors. Brimmer used the job to disseminate controversial, exhaustively documented opinions on black banks (they were more...
It was in his area of expertise that Nelson stumbled. He decided to cover a wall of the main building at Rockefeller Center with a mural worthy of St. Sophia, and he commissioned the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, a celebrated Communist, to paint it. All went well until an unmistakable...
A more recent but somewhat similar contradiction--this time within one group of people--helped keep the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellows Union from successfully striking in 1972 and 1973. The union sprang up when the University imposed an unpopular new financial aid plan without talking to graduate students first...
The pollsters found that most Americans now connect the word conservative more with social morality than with political ideology. Such traditional benchmarks as attitudes toward capitalism and big business no longer help much to define the country politically. While three out of four of the conservative majority said that they...
So far, many of Heilbroner's ideas outlined here sound like the mere prattlings of a paranoid glossed over with the verbiage of radical chic; all issues you've studied or read of before. But when they're brought together they take on a new seriousness. Population explosions will exert...