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...Force Academy to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of Catch-22 would be to ask the author to come celebrate on campus. But wouldn't that be by definition insane? Never mind. When it actually wants to do something, the military just plows ahead. Which is how Joseph Heller wound up spending last weekend at the academy. Heller thought the idea not the least bit strange. "Catch-22 is no more antiwar or antimilitary than other novels," he says. "What it's critical of is dishonesty, personal corruption, ambition -- what any decent person would be critical of." Furthermore, the academy agrees...
...discuss the outlook. The economists forecast that GNP growth, after adjustment for inflation, will accelerate from an annual rate of .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the last half of the year. For 1987 they predict a sturdy, if not spectacular, 3% growth rate. Said Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: "I am keeping the faith that we will have no recession, the economy won't stagnate, and growth will pick...
...danger in not dealing forcefully with the deficit now is that when a recession comes, Congress will not be able to combat it with a large boost in Government spending. The budget imbalance, said Heller, has canceled the country's antirecession insurance policy. Fortunately, if the economists' forecast is correct, the White House and Congress still have at least a year or two to rein in the deficit before the next downturn strikes...
...Walter Heller, one of the architects of deep tax cuts during the Kennedy Administration, saw the new bill, despite its shortcomings, as a "remarkable achievement." The elimination of taxes for millions of poor citizens, he told the panel, was the "most significant antipoverty legislation that we have seen since the Great Society." Said Heller: "Washington is the citadel of the second best. Among the second best, this tax bill is one of the best that I have seen...
Watertown resident Chris Heller praised "theoracle," an electronic sculpture featuringcolumns, a strobe light and a LED digital display."It's a little bizarre, but I like it," she said...