Word: friedmanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he learned last week that the Swedish Royal Academy of Science had chosen him as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, the University of Chicago's feisty Milton Friedman pronounced himself "happy and pleased." But, he added with characteristic bluntness, "it is not the pinnacle of my career. The true judges of my work are today's economists. " Brooklyn-born Friedman, 64, leader of the so-called Chicago School of monetarist economics, thus became the sixth American to win or share the tax-free $ 160,000 award since the prize in economics...
...last week as prime host of Today after three years on the White House beat. His new leading lady, whoever she turns out to be, will play second fiddle. "The uneasy alliance between our co-hosts did not help the show," says Today's new executive producer, Paul Friedman, 31. "We're getting back to a single person in charge...
That is not all that is changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
...Albert Friedman, a Hasidic delegate from New York, said he speaks for some at the convention when he says that talk of requiring a certain percentage of women smacks of a quota system. He is opposed to quotas in any form, he adds...
...write "Dear Popo" or "Dear Eppie" for advice on love or etiquette, so the celebrated sisters became Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers when they went into the counseling-by-column business. But back in Sioux City, Iowa, last week they were Popo (Pauline Esther) and Eppie (Esther Pauline) Friedman again at the 40th reunion of their high school class. Abby was amazed that 300 of the 400 in the original class turned out: "I figured only the thin and the rich would attend." Did her old classmates seek Abby's advice? "Well, a few asked for my private...