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Fired-Up Demand. The annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in January discussed the 4% goal as if it were impossibly Utopian. A confidential Administration paper drafted by Herman Liebling, the Treasury's senior economic forecaster, says flatly that "a 4% unemployment rate as a national goal is not feasible without significant inflation." Liebling figures that a 5% rate "might represent the maximum benefit from cyclical expansion without unleashing unwanted inflationary repercussions." When the paper leaked last week, Liebling's boss, Treasury Secretary John Connally, went before the congressional Joint Economic Committee...
Scofield is at his most dexterous in Bartleby, bringing extraordinary wit to the rather dreary role of a beleaguered office boss (no name given). The film is adapted from Herman Melville's story Bartleby the Scrivener. Bartleby (John McEnery) is a kind of saintly madman, an almost ghostly figure employed (as the movie has it) as an accountant in Scofield's office...
Thus began an arduous series of taped interviews with the entire cast of what Arnheiter liked to refer to as "the Vance Mutiny," after Herman Wouk's famous fictional "mutiny" on board the Caine. As evidence accumulated before Sheehan, it became increasingly apparent that Arnheiter was, in fact, a bit wacky, and the book took on the surreal character of a modern-day parody of Wouk's classic. Indiosyncracies built on idiosyncracies; unbalanced decisions by Arnheiter made other equally unbalanced ones seem more so. The men who had served under Arnheiter unhesitatingly sketched the picture of a self-possessed, unstable...
...prosecution of the Harrisburg Seven will likely be a sedate enterprise compared with the yammering chaos of the Chicago Seven trial two years ago. There is the Rev. Philip Berrigan in place of the irreverent Abbie Hoffman, and an earnest, reserved Judge R. Dixon Herman instead of the choleric, opinionated Judge Julius Hoffman. Defense Attorney Ramsey Clark bears no more resemblance to William Kunstler than the placid Pennsylvania capital does to busy Chicago...
...Judge Herman questioned candidates as to whether they harbored any pro- or anti-war sentiment strong enough to make them incapable of rendering a just decision (see box). He later irked the defense by ordering that the jury, after selection, be sequestered; the defendants claim that juries locked away from their families for months tend to resent the defendants and consequently hand down more severe verdicts...