Word: herbert
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...like the question of guaranteed annual income, the differences may be in rhetoric and degree rather than in principle. In addition, Nixon seemed to be ignoring 1964, when Barry Goldwater proclaimed "a choice, not an echo." Perhaps more significant, the President was forgetting 1932, the year when F.D.R. defeated Herbert Hoover in one of the deep-sea changes of American life. Whether McGovern's program would affect the U.S. as deeply as the New Deal did is an open question. The issues of 1972 have not yet been clearly drawn. Only after McGovern has solidly staked out his positions...
...incident was a macabre echo of 1935, when another Met manager, Basso Herbert Witherspoon, died of a heart attack six weeks after being engaged...
...performance was doubly encouraging because of a marked slowdown in the pace of inflation, to 2.1% v. 5.5% in the year's first quarter. Overall, the Commerce Department reported last week, the second quarter G.N.P. grew by $29.9 billion, to an annual rate of $1,139 billion. Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was elated: "This is the best combination of numbers to be released on one day in this decade-I won't say in the Christian...
...busing and abortion and in favor of aid to parochial schools and relief of the property tax. He moved, however belatedly, to control inflation, and he may yet achieve a ceasefire in Viet Nam before Election Day. History too is on Nixon's side; no incumbent President since Herbert Hoover has lost a bid for a second term...
Mozart: The Wind Concertos (various soloists, the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor; Angel, 3 LPs, $17.98). An exquisitely executed anthology for the Mozartean who has everything-or thinks he does. The selections range from what might be called the camaraderie concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b (featuring oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) and the Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299, to the solo works for bassoon (K. 191), flute (K. 313), oboe (K. 314) and clarinet (K. 622). Von Karajan's soloists, drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, are superb...