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...frustration turned to aggressiveness, and Dartmouth tied the score at 1:54 on a "who's got the ball" play in front of the Crimson...
...defend the dollar overseas. For a year, Volcker was a senior fellow at Princeton, but in 1975 he returned to the New York Fed as its president. In the past year Volcker voted at Federal Reserve meetings for tighter money and was consistently outvoted by his colleagues. Then he got the top job and, with the economy in dire trouble, finally won unanimous support for the measures that caused last week's furor...
WALTER HELLER: "I think the Fed got itself in a position where it had to do this," says the University of Minnesota professor who was President Kennedy's chief economic adviser. "If they had done any less, the world markets would have responded terribly negatively. Yet the costs are high. The Federal Reserve is taking the agony route to lowering inflationary expectations: squeezing down total demand in the economy, thereby weakening both product and labor markets. Increasingly people are going to be squeezed out of [credit] markets at those astronomical interest rates." Heller does not, however, expect "a full...
...Georgia's Julian Bond, Chip Carter vs. former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, Miss Lillian vs. all comers. It was White House clout against Kennedy cachet, a rush of federal block grants and prestigious appointments against a hint of similar largesse tomorrow. It was who had the buses and got enough of them to the polls. It was, alas, Florida and its distressingly premature launching of the 1980 presidential race...
...finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time." So much time, that in the year 2000 Jerry Brown will still be six years younger than the current Republican front runner...