Word: kuh
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...Edwin Kuh, professor of Economics at MIT and Stanley Surrey, Smith professor of Law were instrumental in the drafting of McGovern's revised economic proposals. Paul Samuelson, a colleague of Kuh's worked with him on the draft, but has not been as active in this campaign as he had been in the past for Democratic candidates. "I'm working on the ninth revision of my textbook now no I really don't have the time to be as active as I was for Jack Kennedy," Samuelson said. "I'll probably confine my activities to talking to financial groups...
...EDWIN KUH, a 47-year-old professor at M.I.T., has been group captain since last June's meeting. An economic adviser to McGovern during his 1968 presidential mini-campaign, Kuh continued to send memos to the Senator after the last election. Since then, Kuh, a critic of business, has made major contributions to McGovern's tax-reform and income-redistribution plans. He has also been in charge of recruiting new talent; so far at least 25 economists have funneled ideas to McGovern. Widely admired as an economic technician, Kuh nonetheless has had little experience with the realities...
MARC ROBERTS, 29, is an associate professor at Harvard and a close friend of both Thurow and Kuh, who helped recruit him. A specialist in the economics of pollution control, Roberts has also worked on figuring the costs of McGovern's "conversion" program-the job retraining and unemployment payments to defense workers that will be necessary if the Pentagon's budget is cut by $32 billion, as McGovern proposes. Roberts is hardly a youthful radical. One reason that he likes McGovern, he says, is that the Senator "has absorbed the lesson of the past 20 years that...