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...just about everyone famous in America over his long career as a radio broadcaster in Miami and on his current show. In his book, he discusses friendships with Jackie Gleason, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, and Nixon. He recalls interviews with the likes of Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, and Milton Friedman...
...Tania B. Friedman, another med school admissions officer said the tail end of the baby boom may also have taken its toll on the applicant pool...
...largely conservative faculty of the University of Chicago) to be named a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. At a press conference the witty professor was asked if he were more conservative in his outlook and opinions than his good friend and former faculty colleague Monetarist Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 and is now associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The 6-ft. 3-in. Stigler brushed off the question: "I don't know if I'm behind Milton or ahead of him, but he's so short...
Written in collaboration with Friedman, Roofs or Ceilings argued, among other things, that rent controls on housing had the inevitable effect of distorting rental markets, thereby eventually leading to severe apartment shortages. Said Stigler of his findings: "When rent control is enacted, the original tenants benefit in the short run, but in the long run, property values decline, the tax base is eroded, and the losers wind up losing more than the winners gain. In the end, national income itself is reduced...
...Crimson aquamen, who won half of their four contests, were in trouble from the start. Engineers George Jaquette and John Friedman combined to give Harvard a 3-1 deficit midway through the first quarter, and the hosts played catch-up the rest...