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...ranging from 24 ft. to 30 ft. in length, switched to a 40-ft. houseboat two years ago so that he could treat clients and their families to weekend jaunts up the Allegheny; he has already ordered a 43-ft. replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort," says Gardner. But why two? "At night we moor them about...
Mills has never flatly opposed the tax surcharge. He has simply declined to support it. Largely because of Mills's pressure for spending cuts, Johnson produced a budget so lacking in innovation and inspiration that his chief domestic Cabinet officer, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, finally resigned in despair. Yet Mills, while generally conservative, is not one of the dwindling company of Southern obstructionists who use the committee chairmanships that devolve upon them through the encrusted traditions of seniority to block anything and everything new. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former judge, he has helped enact much...
Order or Repression. "A Government of unprecedented power," he said, "appears to be impotent in the face of the threat of social disintegration and the promise of social justice." By wintertime, when it appeared certain that his department would not get anything like the money he thought it needed, Gardner seemed convinced that neither the President nor the nation had the will to respond. "No society," he said at year's end, "can live in constant tumult. We will have either a civil order in which discipline is internalized in the breast of each free and responsible citizen...
...exercise had a this-is-a-recording tone, but the White House sent in the first economics team anyway: Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles Schultze, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin and Chairman Gardner Ackley of the Council of Economic Advisers. For two days, the witnesses piled statistic on projection to prove essentially two points: that without the tax increase inflation will grow ever more serious, and that the added revenue is sought not to finance new spending programs but to hold the federal deficit to a manageable figure...
...what of "reading" books? Here it seems that the most depressing of all laws-Gresham's, that bad money drives out the good-applies as mercilessly to good books as it does to funny money. The man who has sold the most novels is Erie Stanley Gardner-159 million copies of 125 titles. At least he is a highly competent mystery craftsman. The author who has sold the most in single-copy titles is the semiliterate fantasist of violence and squalor, Mickey Spillane, who has written seven novels that have never sold less than 4,000,000 copies apiece...