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Died. Alvin H. Hansen, 87, economist who pioneered the acceptance of Keynesian theory in the U.S.; in Alexandria, Va. South Dakota-born Hansen was the earliest important American advocate of the then-radical argument set forth by British Economist John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 work, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: that government should take an active role in manipulating the economy through tax and spending policy to maintain high employment, even at the cost of mounting debt and added inflation. As a Roosevelt brain-truster during the New Deal, and as a consultant to various Washington agencies...
...fact still remains that graduate students too need a way to support themselves, and the Dan-forth grant does not mask the deeper, more fundamental, money problems that the GSAS is facing...
Outside Harvard, traditional sources of graduate-student aid, such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health and the Dan-forth Foundation to name a few, this year cut back on their money, a move that affects more than 1000 graduate students...
Such a system would at best be a mixed blessing in the U.S. It would bar from the Cabinet men of great talent outside the Congress. It would also blur the separation of Executive and Legislative powers set forth in the Constitution, a distinction that is basic to the American system of government. There is no guarantee, either, that giving Cabinet members a political home to retreat to after resignation would alter what appears to be a basic reluctance of Americans in power to resign publicly on an issue of principle...
...Hutchins, iconoclastic former president of the University of Chicago. Amidst the seaside splendor of a 43-acre Mediterranean-style estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., the center's scholars pursued Hutchins' formidable goal. An average of three mornings a week, the chimes of a Benedictine bell summoned them forth to a marble-floored edifice for "dialogues" on weighty issues-many of which eventually appeared in a lofty publication called The Center Magazine...