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...drafting such a Tax-based Incomes Policy (TIP) bill, which Chairman William Proxmire plans to introduce late this year or early next. Meanwhile, some Treasury and Internal Revenue Service staffers were ordered to cancel summer vacations and study what kind of TIP plan the Carter Administration might propose. Explains Lyle Gramley, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers: "TIP is becoming more attractive simply because the other alternatives aren't much better or they're not working...
...also introduced to Lyle, the good-hearted, simple-minded proprietor of the gas station across the way, and Clark, the mercenary owner of the restaurant...
Donald Campbell as Lyle does a creditable job conveying the good intentioned fool's inability to comprehend Teddy's evil, and he manages the only consistent hick in the play...
...Lyle Gramley, a member of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, says: "I still think we'll see a strong third quarter, but inflation is the key to future consumer action. If inflation shows signs of tapering, as we are expecting, then consumer purchases should stay up." Adds a prominent Government economist: "We won't really know what is happening until Christmas. My real fear is that the consumer just can't handle 7% to 8% inflation...
...recalled that "later Castro informed one of our own diplomats that he knew about the impending invasion ahead of time and that he attempted to notify President Neto of Angola and was unsuccessful." TIME'S cover story on Africa reported that Castro had called in Lyle Lane, the ranking U.S. diplomat in Havana, and told him he knew of the invasion in advance and had tried unsuccessfully to head it off. Castro told Lane he had indeed notified Neto, who was unable to deter the Katangese...