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...chief lobbyist for the Administration's 1964 tax-cut bill. Fowler pored over the Congressional Record daily, analyzing countless pages of debate, spent hours wheedling Congressmen in the halls-and played a major role in finally getting the measure passed. However, Fowler tangled with Kennedy Economic Adviser Walter Heller. Their differences were mostly kept behind the scenes. But Fowler questioned Heller's economic forecasting and political judgment, was irritated by what he deemed Heller's undue interference...
...rogue talents, unpredictable, disturbing and powerfully individual. Thus they form no cohesive school or even a wave. Nonetheless, critics of late have taken to calling them "black humorists," which is probably as good a tag as any. Among them are such comic writers as Bruce Jay Friedman and Joseph Heller, both of whose first novels were bestsellers. They also include such gifted but less widely read novelists as John Barth and James Purdy; they are perhaps best known for names like Terry Southern, Warren Miller and J. P. Donleavy...
Military Jujitsu. Professional patriots have always been fair game for satire but few books have ever given them a lustier Bronx cheer than Joseph Heller's sprawling, farcical Catch-22. Yossarian, the Air Corps bombardier who doesn't want to fly any more missions for the mordantly sane reason that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system...
Nonetheless, the assignment illustrates Johnson's growing reliance on Ackley and his colleagues. With a professional staff of only 16, the three-man Council ranks (as Heller liked to say) somewhere between the Indian Claims Commission and the American Battle Monuments Commission, and has a budget of only $645,000; yet it exerts power and influence far beyond its size. Last week the Council's members worked late into each night helping to prepare the budget and the President's annual economic message to Congress. Ranging from high policy to day-to-day chores, the CEA keeps...
Following Heller is no easy job, but Ackley, 49, has taken it in stride. A former University of Michigan professor who had served on the Council since 1962 before becoming chairman last November, he is a calm and retiring team man and a skillful administrator. Ackley now talks with the President at least three times daily, sends him a daily stream of communications, meets regularly with Cabinet members. He has been helping to cull the 15 presidential task-force reports for legislative recommendations, also serves with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon on the troika that advises...