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Probably related to this lecture in some perverse sense is a Surgical Research Conference seminar Monday, Jan. 16 on "Hazards in the Use of PEEP." You can get a peep at PEEP in Room A of the Grossberg Building at Beth Israel Hospital at a quarter of five that last day of reading period...
...first 150 million ministamps, featuring an 1877 Indianhead penny against a tan background, will go on sale Jan. 11 in Kansas City, Mo. Next day, post offices in Hartford, Memphis, Portland, Ore., and Richmond, will begin selling them...
...chafed increasingly under Burns' open criticism of White House policy. But could Carter afford to dump the legendary and controversial Burns when his second four-year term as chairman of what has been called the nation's "Supreme Court of money" expires Jan. 31? At 73, Burns had become a rock-like symbol of resistance to inflation at home and a champion of a strong dollar abroad. He was trusted and admired by U.S. businessmen and foreign finance ministers, precisely the two groups most skeptical of Carter's own savvy as an economic manager...
...zero-based budgeting"-that is, not simply comparing a department's spending requests with what it spent the previous year, but starting at zero and figuring out how much it really needs. Currently, as time grows short to ready the 1979 budget for presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that is one of the smaller cuts. According to OMB gossip, Mclntyre whacked much harder at spending...
...cheerfully entitled "Suggestions for Job Seekers" but full of depressing statistics. Of the 1,094 Ph.D.s created last year in English and 753 in languages, we learn only 42% and 46%, respectively, have landed steady teaching positions. "Ten years ago, anybody who didn't have a job by Jan. 15 would look in the mirror to see if he had leprosy," comments Jasper Neel, director of the M.L.A.'s English programs. "Now there won't be an upturn of Ph.D. hiring in this century. The birth rate is dropping, and people hired in the boom years...