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...number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there was a big hunk of hair missing on the right side." Joked he: "What would have happened if the interview had taken place in an air control tower?" Getting wind of the comments, Blanton sniffed: "It doesn't bother...
...Restraints. A pragmatic, neo-Keynesian economist. Schultze favors a temporary tax cut of undetermined size to stimulate the economy and help reduce unemployment. Unlike the present head of the CEA. Alan Greenspan, Schultze thinks it is socially disastrous to combat inflation by keeping the lid on the economy and keeping unemployment high, says fellow Economist Arthur Okun. On the other hand, Schultze, no doctrinaire, fully appreciates the dangers of inflation. It was largely his testimony that brought about the drastic revision of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which would attack unemployment by making the Government the employer of last resort...
Humble Peugeot. Gaddafi's messianism has had its advantages on the home front. His personal asceticism-he lives in army barracks and rides around Tripoli in a humble white Peugeot -keeps a lid on the nouveau riche excesses that have plagued Saudi Arabia. Some observers are worried about the immigration of Libyans from the desert to the cities. Says one Western diplomat: "These people are desert nomads. There's danger that they'll become disoriented by urban life and indolent with their riches. Gaddafi is trying to combat this with a religious, revolutionary fervor-with unknown success...
...here's something you probably didn't know: Ever hear of Lou Reed? Well, he's the same Lou Reed--then "Louis Reed" who blew the lid off the went on to play Wally in "Leave it to Beaver." His father runs a Blimpie on the corner of 43rd and Madison in NYC. Oh, yeah--you know that right arm? Totally phony, Blown off in the war. Blown...
Skyrocketing electric rates in Massachusetts have prompted two of the questions on the ballot. Question 4 would establish a state power authority, similar in concept to public power companies throughout the country. Public power is a proven concept that will put a lid on the ever-rising cost of electricity...