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...appointment of Fowler is symbolic of how far toward integration Little Rock has gone under the watchful eye of federal courts. Although in many classrooms integration is only token, the community has accepted 1,850 Negro students-about 23% of the city's Negro children-into previously all-white schools. Faculty desegregation is also under way. In the past two years, 31 Negro teachers and 27 whites have been assigned to schools in which their race was in the minority...
...member of the Urban League, Fowler formerly served as a principal of one of the twelve remaining all-Negro schools in Little Rock; three of his five daughters attend integrated classes. He is well regarded by white teachers for his integrity and professionalism. Fowler hopes to "place people where they will best serve, regardless of race," but adds that under the law, anyone holding his job must press for further job integration. "It can be done," he says, "and I will...
...when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet Nam spending and was culpably negligent in its failure to raise taxes enough to head off a 3.3% rise in prices, it was simply more than Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler could bear...
...Analytical Lag." Settling into a witness chair before Proxmire's Senate-House Joint Economic Committee last week, Fowler flailed away with unaccustomed vigor at almost every target in-and out of-sight. As for economists who have lambasted him and President Johnson for first not raising taxes and now for asking that they be hiked, Fowler accused them of "suffering from an analytical lag that has them currently applying their calipers to conditions of a year ago." He rapped "bank letters notable for consistency if not accuracy." He scoffed at "herd-thinking, Monday-morning quarterbacks," and skeptics...
Next day, from the same witness chair, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin jabbed back. "The markets don't wait for kings, Presidents, Secretaries of the Treasury, chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers-or even the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board," said he. As for Fowler's imputation that the board failed to mesh its policies with those of the White House, Martin disclosed that he had tried from September 1965 on -three months before the board finally acted to tighten money-to persuade the Administration to go along. After that, according to secret minutes also...