Word: economists
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Decline or Survival? Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires...
...Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the Truman Administration; Jack Corbett, former State Department economist; and Seymour Rubin, Washington attorney and economist...
...frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says Economist Wolff: "There is no justification for building so many homes as are being built in Florida." Yet the land boom shows few signs of busting. Land prices have slipped only slightly, though the recession has made it easier to get land on easier terms. One brake on the boom...
...from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become the first Defense Secretary. In 1932 Nitze married Phyllis Pratt, granddaughter of a founder of Standard Oil. After wartime service as an economist, Nitze began a brilliant career in State. In 1948 he was prime mover of the group that took the general ideas of Secretary George Marshall and whipped them into the practical program that became the Marshall Plan. In 1950, as director of State's Policy Planning Staff...
Asked about her views of Barry Goldwater, Miss Rand replied, "He appears promising." She approved of his foreign policy, but on domestic issues proclaimed him "a mixed economist...