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...voice was suddenly silent. He had turned in his last columns to the National Catholic Register and Twin Circle (combined weekly circulation: 162,000), left his Manhattan office and headed west. Days later, he walked into the Portland, Ore., headquarters of his Jesuit superior, the Very Rev. Kenneth Galbraith, and stunned him by asking for a leave of absence, with the intention of ultimately seeking release from his priestly vows. After all the dropouts in recent years, "I thought I was through with being surprised," says Galbraith, "but I was surprised...
Somewhat belatedly, Baker realized that Lyons was the sole owner of the Homiletic, but Lyons, without consulting Baker, says he has turned control of the magazine over to Galbraith. At week's end Galbraith was flying to New York City to confer with both Lyons and Baker. Legally, the Homiletic had belonged to a Lyons-owned enterprise called Catholic Polls, Inc. One purpose of the organization: to poll the Catholic clergy and prove Lyons' contention that a majority oppose permitting priests to marry...
Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, said yesterday that while Galbraith sincerely wished to provide incentive for high-quality graduate school teaching, he also wished to "have some fun with his colleagues...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has donated a $10,000 annual prize for graduate-level teaching in the Department of Economics, to be awarded by the department's second-year graduate students...
...words might, with Galbraithian irony, be applied to the author's own belief in wage-price controls as a panacea. Corporate and union power is indeed a serious problem for any government trying to restrain inflation, and there are times when wage-price restraint must be enforced. But Galbraith-style permanent controls tend in the long run to suffocate economic life by distorting market forces, discouraging business investment and initiative, and creating shortages. They also breed worker resentment over lost wage boosts that translates into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government can afford...