Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read my name in the list of train devotees while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. As principal conductor of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, I make a minimum of four trips a year to Europe and back. By now I fly happily, read, work and even occasionally look at the movie, although that tends to work more as a soporific than a stimulant. My train travel is restricted nowadays to a ten-minute trip around the Houston Zoo on the kids' railroad...
...willing to go even further was John Freeman, London's Ambassador-designate to Washington. Six years ago, when he was editor of Britain's leftwing New Statesman, Freeman wrote that Nixon's record "suggests a man of no principle whatever," one who has "done lasting damage to the conventions of American political life." Freeman now argues differently, saying that Nixon "has proved by his success, and the quite admirable struggle which he has made to achieve it, that he has the qualities of leadership that make him worthy of high office...
...things are run. The whole city needs cleaning up." So Frank is clearing out. "I haven't got too many years of singing left and I have to take care of myself." That will include stops at the spread in Palm Springs, the yacht, homes in London, Acapulco, Manhattan and, best of all, San Francisco. "Now there's a grownup, swinging town...
...adviser and now a key Nixon man, some sort of surtax reduction will be possible. On the other hand, a tax reduction could well touch off a new round of inflation. With the inflation threat obviously in mind, Pierre Rinfret, Manhattan economic consultant and another Nixon adviser, conceded in London last week that Nixon might conceivably have to retain the surcharge, or even raise taxes. "I don't think," said Rinfret, "that the surcharge can be eliminated easily...
...controlling the money supply to regulate the pace of business. During the second quarter of this year, the amount of money in circulation rose at the inflationary rate of 10% a year. Many economists now contend that this was an underlying cause of the worrisome consumer-spending spree. Argues London's influential weekly, the Economist: "The British government's views on money supply are completely out of date...