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...Havens is indeed back on his game he has a good shot at becoming the first Harvard player to be selected to the All-Ivy team for four consecutive seasons. "Havens should do it," teammate John Heller noted yesterday, "because Havens last year and Havens this year are a different animal...
...alternatives to Stage 2, Administration planners believe, are worse. In a burst of candor, COWPS Director Barry Bosworth said that if the plan fails, the U.S. will face a "cruel choice" of outright wage-price controls or recession. Some non-Government economists, including Democrats Arthur Okun and Walter Heller, also believe a recession is becoming more likely, partly because inflation is eating up consumer purchasing power, partly because the Federal Reserve Board is pushing interest rates so high...
...novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, drew heavily on his childhood experiences. Again he found an audience of enthusiastic reviewers, but few paying readers. The author remained a hermit to New York literary life, though he had some close writing friends. Among those in his regular card-playing group was Joseph Heller. Recalls Puzo: "I used to get mad at him and throw his papers around. How could I know that the stuff was going to be Catch...
...Federal, state and local taxes are still in the vicinity of 30% of the gross national product in this country," says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He adds, "Taxes in most European countries run up to 35% and 45%. The only major country that's below us is Japan." As Heller sees it, the California revolt reflects local circumstances, including California's booming real estate market and Governor Jerry Brown's delay in promoting tax reductions. Recalls Heller: "Several of us economists were invited to Sacramento...
Many of the experts would have preferred other tax-cutting measures. Heller says he would have voted for the defeated Proposition 8, which promised smaller (30%) property tax cuts-only to homeowners, not the owners of commercial and industrial property, who pay 48% of California property taxes. Heller notes that California homeowners eventually will be paying higher taxes relative to commercial-industrial properties, since private residences change hands more often than factories and office buildings; with each sale, a property may be reassessed and its taxes may rise. Says Heller of the disparity: "An abomination." Weidenbaum counters that "by reducing...