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"Analytical Lag." Settling into a witness chair before Proxmire's Senate-House Joint Economic Committee last week, Fowler flailed away with unaccustomed vigor at almost every target in-and out of-sight. As for economists who have lambasted him and President Johnson for first not raising taxes and now...
Poison & Salve. Actually, most traders expect mercury's price to climb, at least in the long run. Though the U.S. is the world's No. 1 mercury consumer, the nation produces less than a third of the metal it needs. It depends heavily on imports from Spain, whose...
There is an old cliche that Harvard people don't care about the rest of Cambridge. This case shows how very true cliches often are.
On housing in general, Buckley is rightly wary of massive urban renewal in the form of projects--so, at this point, is just about everyone. He advocates the rehabilitation of existing structures. But from this eminently logical beginning premise, Buckley immediately flips out into negativism. "To this end [rehabilitation]," the...
Urbanely voluble, Flanders does most of the talking, and he can switch-hit a cliche or a platitude with deceptive ease: