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...Once the current series of major appointments is behind him, President Bok may be free to consider bringing his 18-year presidency to a close. Bok himself has hinted recently that he is thinking of moving...
Almost heretically, given the Republican Party's current center of gravity, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft has moved his boss to the center by calling him a "Rockefeller Republican." To the Republican right, those are fighting words. So repugnant was Nelson Rockefeller's pragmatic moderation that they forced him from Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976. "Look at most of the ((Bush)) Cabinet and White House staff," says George Clark, the former New York State Republican leader who supported Reagan in 1980 against the preferences of the state party's dominant Rockefeller wing. "The more I see and read...
That concern is echoed by resurgent Keynesian economists, who are trying to adapt their mostly liberal views to current conditions. Virtually counted out when inflation surged along with unemployment in the 1970s, the Keynesians now point out that Reagan borrowed from their philosophy in propelling his economic boom with deficit spending, which Keynesians have long advocated as a cure for slumps. "Keynesianism was vindicated by these last eight years," says Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a leading exponent of the school of thought. Blinder insists, however, that the deficits have got far out of hand...
Harvard's Samuel Huntington confirms this Soviet intuition in the current Foreign Affairs. The real cause of the decline of nations, he argues, is not the now fashionable notion of "imperial overstretch" but the phenomenon of creeping inflexibility, what might be called industrial sclerosis -- precisely the loss of that ability to change and adapt...
...suprise move, all nine final clubs agree to admit women to their current facilities. In a subsequent statement, the clubs' counsel Melvin Belli announces their hostile takeover of the Charles Hotel and plan to move all offices and open bars into their new headquarters. Radcliffe College, which has already started using the old club buildings as offices, is startled to find itself responsible for $300,000 in newly increased taxes on the club properties, which lost their tax easement privileges when the men moved...