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...women; in the leading universities, the figure was only 1%. Still, a growing number of female stars are today rising over the campuses. One of them, Marina Whitman, 43, economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh, broke new ground by becoming the first female member of the three-person CEA in the Nixon Administration. A specialist in global economics, Whitman says wryly of her CEA appointment: "There was a kind of debutante quality about it." One of the vexing problems that she encountered in Washington was that women and men very often were separated after dinner. Eventually, she stopped accepting...
...program analyst for the National Science Foundation), Slater decided to enter a field that would lead to Government work, and economics looked right. She finally earned a Ph.D. in economics after a twelve-year slog of night school at American University. In 1967 she joined the staff of the CEA, then moved to the Joint Economic Committee, where she became the senior economist. She calls herself a "pragmatic liberal...
...rarity." Another rarity is Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of Townsend-Greenspan, economic consultants to many of the nation's largest corporations. She assumed most of the duties of the firm's president, Alan Greenspan, when he went to Washington as chief of the CEA under President Ford...
Administration officials who wanted to switch to an anti-inflation policy-CEA Chairman Charles Schultze, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Council on Wage and Price Stability Director Barry Bosworth-got a powerful ally in G. William Miller, who took over as Chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board in March. Miller, a liberal businessman, was shocked by the runaway inflation he encountered and publicly urged the President to declare it the primary peril. More support came from, of all people, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Says one Administration policymaker: "When Marshall starts arguing for wage-price guidelines, which would fall...
...even greater problem is the hostility of residents living near sites proposed for garbage-processing plants and storage areas. CEA's plant in East Bridgewater is presently shut down for repairs of damage caused by an explosion in November. Company officials speculate that the blast could have been the work of people wanting to stop shipments of raw garbage into the neighborhood. Says New York's Vaccarello: "We have the processes to clean up waste matter, but it will take time to clean up garbage's bad image...