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Forward Al MacMillan beat Carling goalie Dick Heller in a Carling man-down situation as the second period began...
...help out their balance sheets still more, other government units have cut back or refused to increase spending on education, police and health care. In addition, few mayors or Governors have spent enough to head off imminent problems posed by outmoded mass transit and increasing pollution. Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I have yet to see a long-range state-local expenditure projection that did not underestimate spending requirements. Knock on any door marked MAYOR or GOVERNOR and you'll find a long line of pressing needs waiting to be dealt with...
...Weed Factor ushered in a new vein of American fiction in the early and middle sixties including Pynchon's V. Heller's Catch-22, and Coover's The Origin of the Brunists. What these works all share is an abiding contempt for the boundaries of traditional realism and traditional notions of seriousness. The example of the early moderns, Joyce in particular, had been terrifying. In a novel like Ulysses, the most incidental details were somehow necessary. Instead of trying to compete on these terms, the novelists of the sixties rejected such lofty ambitions and produced fiction where everything was superfluous...
...economy is now so big that it must move ever faster in order to stand still. Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S board, calculates that the increase in the labor force, the normal rise in productivity and a modest increase in inflation would add up to a potential growth of 7.5%, or $90 billion. But growth has to be higher than 7.5% for several more years if the nation is to employ its out-of-work men and women and get good use from its underutilized plants and machines. As a consequence of the recession...
...stripping the earth of natural resources or by choking humanity in a cloud of pollution. Sicco Mansholt, outgoing president of the European Common Market Commission, has remarked that in Western Europe, America and Japan, gross national product "has been thought of as something sacred-but G.N.P. is diabolical." Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, complains that a speaker who ventures a good word for rising output is immediately assailed as a "growth maniac" or an "abominable growthman...