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...gross national product had grown at only a 1.3% annual rate in the first quarter of this year. That was well below the sluggish 2.1 % estimate that the Government issued last month and the smallest GNP gain since the .5% increase in the final quarter of 1982. Noted Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The economy is pretty weak at the moment. We have had a lot of conflicting signals from the economy lately, and some have been concealing the fact that it has been performing poorly...
Nonetheless, neither Government nor private economists foresee a new recession this year. Said Heller: "We should not overemphasize just one quarter. This economy is not on the skids. There is enough steam in the boiler to keep things going." Predicted Charles Schultze, who was Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser: "For the rest of this year and into next year you still ought to see a moderate but erratic expansion...
...situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after all but more sophisticated signs of frustration...
Another principal investigator, Constance Horgan, who is director of the Center for Behavioral Health at Brandeis University’s Heller School, was not available for comment. Horgan has worked on numerous projects examining how health services are provided in the changing managed care environment, according to the Heller School website...
...material in Eichinger’s script is not entirely new. The account of Hitler’s secretary, Traudl Junge, which provides the film with its basic structure and point of view, appeared in the 2002 documentary Blind Spot by Austrian multimedia artist André Heller. Much of the same material was the subject of a 2003 documentary in the BBC’s Days that Shook the World series, which also included a description of the bunker through Traudl’s eyes...