Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before he began work on this week's cover story on G. William Miller, George Taber, our Washington economic correspondent, had collected some intriguing gossip and opinion about the unbankerly new Federal Reserve Board chief. Most of it squared with the impression that Taber had got during his first meeting with Miller, just after he took office in March. "It was disarming," he recalls. "He was running around the solemn corridors of the Fed with his coat off, tossing out ideas on fighting inflation and otherwise behaving unlike the typical wary central banker...
...that will accompany President Carter to Bonn completed its negotiating briefs and studied the latest economic indicators. They did not make for cheerful reading. New Government estimates published last week forecast a U.S. inflation rate of more than 7% for 1978 and lower economic expansion than previously expected (see cover). Not only was Congress still stalled on the President's energy package, but the Senate has threatened to block any draconian attempts by the Administration to impose levies or quotas on oil imports. In short, Carter will arrive in Bonn with a somewhat weakened U.S. bargaining hand...
Honorable members dived for cover under their antique, leather-padded benches last week as demonstrators protesting Britain's military presence in Northern Ireland hurled something worse than slogans at the august mother of parliaments. Despite strict security, a man and a woman had managed to smuggle a truly noxious bundle of objections into the visitors' gallery at Westminster: packages of horse manure. After bombarding the M.P.s with the missiles, the coprophilic dissidents-one of whom was Yana Mintoff, 26, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta-were dragged off by police...
...most important divisions within HEW, with a staff of hundreds of thousands. The administration manages the Social Security Benefits Program, which distributes the monthly checks which are sent to cover 33 million people...
...hindrances that cannot be overlooked. It could be that because of the three years off, Springsteen has lost an essential edge and been too compulsive about his album; we hope that is all it is. But when I look into the vacant eyes of the man on his album cover, and remember how many talents have burned out and gone maundering off into self-indulgence and pretentiousness, I start to think that there may be all too much more. But only the next album will tell if the "future of rock and roll" has become a part of the past...