Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abbreviated set. The Rolling Stones, defiant, sneering stars of the '60s, now mingle easily among the best of any Social Register crowd, and much the same holds true for other rock stars as well. While Mick Jagger lunches with Lee Radziwill, George Harrison meets Henry Kissinger, and Alice Cooper plays 18 holes with George Burns. Even Jimmy Carter, fashionably attired in an Allman Brothers T-shirt, has been seen in the company of Rock entertainers...
...Although Cooper is often labeled a "liberal" economist, he is generally un-doctrinaire-except for a strong bias toward greater economic growth as a solution to social problems and freer international trade as a way to achieve it. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Berry, for instance, Cooper suggested that if the Japanese do not soon stimulate their domestic economy, which would mean an increase in imports from other nations, "we should hit them hard" to force an increase in the value...
...instincts are for cooperation, not combat. As provost at Yale during the depths of the recession, Cooper had to carry out deep spending cuts, including a 20% slash in the faculty budget. Yet his even, unemotional, aboveboard handling of the problems won him a standing ovation from the faculty when his term expired. "He can turn people down without offending them," says William Brainard, a fellow economics professor. "He can accept criticism because little ego is involved in anything he does...
Apple Juice. After graduating from Ohio's Oberlin College in 1956 with top grades, Cooper married Carolyn Cahalan, whom he had met on campus, and they both set off for the London School of Economics, where they earned masters' degrees. While Carolyn was bringing up their children, Laura, 16, and Mark, 15, Cooper got his doctorate at Harvard (thesis title: "U.S. Competition in World Markets...
...Haven, the Coopers have a three-story clapboard house on Everit Street. Dick Cooper keeps fit by playing tennis in summer, squash in winter He neither smokes nor imbibes anything stronger than wine. In fact, he prefers apple juice, preferably the mellow German Apfelsaft. He commutes to his nearby office by bicycle or motor scooter But those easy commuting days will soon be over