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...economic policy, the differences can be much more pronounced than that. This year they loom particularly large because after the election, many crucial decisions will have to be made on tax reform, the fate of wage and price controls, the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. How will the outcome of the election influence these decisions? That question was examined by three members of TIME'S Board of Economists: Walter Heller, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; Beryl Sprinkel, a Republican and senior vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust...
...third highrise will loom on Boylston Street, midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
While Congress fiddles, badly needed measures are blocked: welfare reform, national health insurance, omnibus housing and community-development programs, no-fault insurance, railroad strike procedures and gun control. The national conventions loom, and so does the political fact that all House members and one-third of the Senators must stand for re-election in November. It is thus questionable that any of these bills will be resolved, a situation sure to renew calls for further Congressional reform...
...candidates, the primaries must I loom like some monstrous political version of the Great Wall of China: an awesome structure, stretching on and on, that has never decided a battle. As they campaigned in Wisconsin, the Democratic candidates were already showing serious signs of wear and tear. Yet this was only the fourth primary; there are a staggering 19 still...
Brando, who had been expected to loom as the biggest of all the movie's problems, turned out to be a model team player. Indeed, Brando's only major fault as an actor was that he would not or could not learn his lines, and had to read them from hidden cue cards. Long known as an actor who lives his roles, Brando in effect adopted the actors who played his screen sons. Just before shooting started, Ruddy threw a cast party at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan. "We were all new to each other," says John Cazale...