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...bristled. "I do not think that the Bogota lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization," Roosevelt wrote Hay. Earlier that summer the New York lawyer for the French company, William Cromwell, left a meeting in Washington with the President to issue a press release stating that the province of Panama might secede from Colombia, in which case the U.S. would recognize Panama as an independent nation and conclude a treaty with the new state. This scheme seemed to violate an 1846 U.S. agreement to guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia...
...power of enforcement and has been less than vigorous in exercising its authority to review wage and price increases. Bosworth, however, would like nothing better than to transform the council into a potent force in the fight against inflation. Says he: "I do think we can do a lot better than we've done in the past...
...wiry, ruddy-faced redhead, whose shock of tousled hair makes him look about ten years younger than he is, Bosworth has packed a lot of experience into his relatively short career. A protege of Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Bosworth got his first taste of Government work as a staff member of the CEA in 1968, while he was still working toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1969 and stayed until 1971, when he left to sign on at Brookings...
...Left and counterculture are men and women now. They did not merely step onto the centrifuge of the '60s and pinwheel themselves out in the direction of Aquarius, to vanish forever. Many simply settled down. Says David Dellinger, 62, an elder statesman of the movement: "A lot of people had been leading emergency lives fbr-a-long time. They had put off schooling, babies, their own lives." Whatever their real accomplishments, the New Leftists and their allies during the '60s were engaged in an immense, new kind of theater. It was a cultural spectacle; eventually, both players...
...found tasteless-but rarely loses his temper and always bubbles with enthusiasm for the task at hand, whether weeding his garden or pruning his executive ranks. "The idea that a publisher sits up here and issues directives, wields great power and smites people to their knees is a lot of baloney," he says. "But it's a lot of fun. It's the best job in the world...