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...group of 34 prominent economists, including a Harvard professor emeritus, sharply criticized President Reagan's economic policies this week in a letter to the White House...
Travelling in Virginia that week, Ford Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences David Riesman '31 visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would be targeted by the Soviets because Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a vehement anti-communist spokesman, had once attended an adjacent military academy, Riesman explains...
...letter, co-signed by Richard A. Musgrave, Hitchings Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, argues that the Reagan program is "based on unrealistic assumptions, lacking credible support in both economic theory and the experience of industrial countries...
...votes, the GOP gubernatorial nominee asked three women before finally finding one to run on his ticket for secretary of state. The next week, word got out that the head of the Democratic ticket was explicitly looking for a woman running mate. He finally summoned 70-year-old congresswoman emeritus Martha W. Griffiths out of retirement to run for lieutenant governor...
...incidents of illegal Japanese business practices are having a strong impact in Tokyo. Said Kinji Yajima, professor emeritus of the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Our mercantile image has once again been tarnished. We Japanese are now being regarded as a scheming bunch of villains around the U.S. It will take years for us to improve our image to what it had been before Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Mitsui were caught." The land where saving face is all important is now worried about losing face...