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...Father's" owners are currently fighting the suits, Francis J. DiMento '48, lawyer for the chain, said yesterday. The owners contend that they are not discriminating against men, he said...
While a complete military triumph seems out of the question, he feels that Berlin could negotiate a settlement with Moscow ("Stalin need take no account of his public opinion"), thus freeing German forces to contend with the Allies in the West. This was probably the master propagandist's final delusion. As Soviet tanks rumbled through Berlin on May 1, 1945 -21 days after his last entry and the day following Hitler's suicide in the Fiihrer-bunker-Goebbels and his wife Magda methodically poisoned their six children and then killed themselves...
Thus Miller will shortly be overwhelmed by diametrically opposed advice. Conservatives like Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, contend that the Federal Reserve should concentrate on moderating the growth of money supply and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. Liberal economists like Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution retort that the Fed should concentrate on holding down business borrowing costs and not worry so much about money-supply targets...
Businessmen contend that OSHA's most pernicious habit is to sneak up on them unawares without search warrants, a practice that is drawing increasing scrutiny from the courts. Since last January, 18 state and federal court decisions have been handed down against the agency for violating the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search and seizure. A suit is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the agency's authority to make inspections without a warrant. There is plenty of evidence that such tactics simply make enforcement all the harder. Says William Kemp, a furniture manufacturer in Goldsboro...
...next month, or chooses someone else. That has become one of the burning questions for 1978, and it divides the TIME Board of Economists along strict liberal-conservative lines. Conservatives, though they are displeased that Burns so far has been unable to keep the money supply from growing rapidly, contend that he must remain as the nation's chief inflation fighter...