Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is Ziegler's first big Government job. He left a Los Angeles advertising firm to work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings, but he has little, it any, say about what will be made public. That seems fine with him. "Nobody wants to know what Ron Ziegler thinks about anything," he says. "The worst thing a press secretary can ever do is shoot from the hip. I'd rather...
...public is not impressed with that sort of optimism. There is usually a distressing lag between the time an anti-inflationary policy is adopted and the time when prices actually start to level off. Economists figure that it takes six to nine months for tight-money policies to slow down an overly accelerated economy, which is what is happening now. After that, still another three to six months generally pass before price increases start to lade. By this reckoning, the Administration will do well if it manages to reduce today's 6%-a-year price inflation to something approaching...
...view, is the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin. With large tax-exempt holdings, communal responsibility, a profitable sawmill and lumbering business, about 3,000 Menominees, before "termination" began in 1961, were nearly selfsupporting. They cost the Federal Government only about $50 per head in aid a year, a level far lower than in many white communities. Then the reservation was made into a regular Wisconsin county, tax exemptions were cut off, and Indians who occupied land were allowed to buy or rent it. In the eight years since termination, many have become dead weights on the state's welfare programs...
...Depression waif, she wakes to discover that her lover, sleeping beside her, has just been shot through the head. Within the hour, a neighborhood policeman, more interested in investigating Loretta than the murder, has her back in bed. Marrying him to rise in the world, she eventually finds her level as a cheerful survivor, shifting from man to man, piecing together each new day from the wreckage...
...find her work too full of social and economic themes. "The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward," she says. "Intellectuals have forgotten, or else they never understood, how difficult it is to make one's way up from a low economic level, to assert one's will in a great crude way. It's so difficult. You have to go through it. You have to be poor...