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...hand in the economy; economists are testing new theories that are overturning older methods. It is a time when those who prize ordered theories and predictable patterns are in the distinct minority. That minority nonetheless has its voices-and one of the most articulate is that of John Davenport, an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, whose book on The U.S. Economy has just been published by Henry Regnery...
...Davenport is a sort of Emerson of economics, eloquently pleading the case for self-reliance, individualism, and a more humane order of things. Last week, appearing before New York's prestigious Economic Club, which has heard such speakers as John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, Davenport threw down the gauntlet in a speech that, together with his book, is a testimony to what he calls the value of "traditional wisdom." He not only deplores the easy credit, deficit spending and incipient inflation that he sees around him but criticizes many measures that have been welcomed into the mainstream of economic...
...book, Davenport also takes aim at a number of highly regarded targets...
Pointing with Pride. The next day, before an enthusiastic G.O.P. crowd in Davenport, Iowa, Nixon continued the attack, said that "unless we get a new Administration, the danger of war is greatly increased." He reminded his audience that giving some nuclear-weapons authority to the NATO commander is "what we're doing right now," and that "it is responsible and not rash...
...Willie Davenport...