Word: economists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creator of the papier-máché figures that brightened TIME'S cover on Sept. 22. To his dismay, the worried young lady whisked off, saying that she had to "warn" her boss. When Scarfe was finally ushered in to meet his subject, the long, lean economist rumbled: "The last thing I want to give you is artistic direction, but are you going to do the same sort of thing...
...Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London. Aware that a similar long-lasting fate might await his Galbraith sculpture, TIME'S editors asked the professor if they could keep the jacket, which he had bought at Horton's of Dublin. Indeed they could, said the Scots-descended economist, "for one hundred dollars!" TIME sent a check posthaste...
There has been without doubt a very real desire for growth in the Peace Corps, for any economist will note that 14,000 Volunteers will hardly scratch the surface of the problems between present and peace. One thousand Volunteers in India are too few for final solutions; therefore they aim at "confrontation rather than solution." Yet on a proportionate per capita basis, Botswana would merit only two Volunteers rather than the eighty British and American Volunteers it now requests and uses. Thus a concern for growth is a function of a quest for impact: if peace is at issue, impact...
Despite North Korea's obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in Viet Nam. As the London Economist observed: "The North Koreans are trying to divert American attention from what could be a decisive battle in Viet Nam." That battle, shaping up around the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh in South Viet Nam's northwest corner, could be the biggest of the war. The Communists would not only like to distract U.S. attention and resources...
Named to succeed Schultze was an other New Economist-Charles J. Zwick, 41, a former Harvard professor and Assistant Budget Director for two years. An expert in Government reorganization, Zwick aims to consolidate and strengthen the programs that Johnson has won from Congress...