Word: lyndon
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DIED. Otto Eckstein, 56, staunchly liberal German-born economist, Harvard professor, member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson and longtime participant on TIME'S Board of Economists, who promoted the science of econometric forecasting into an indispensable tool of government and business planning and founded a highly successful business, Data Resources Inc., which, when sold to McGraw-Hill in 1979, made him a multimillionaire; of cancer; in Boston...
...domestic problems like poverty, hunger and crime. But the candidates and their aides should at some point be concerned with summing up the whole. The presidency is macropolitics. The whole right now is pretty darn good by almost anybody's standards. As Horace Busby, who used to counsel Lyndon Johnson, said the other day, "What I have begun to hear in this decade is a wonderful chorus of celebration. Americans are newly proud of their country, they like their work, they feel good about themselves . . . a miracle is occurring before our eyes. We are becoming a new people...
...Lyndon Tefft, the director of OFS, said the computer was used for financial planning and that no computer files containing data had been stolen...
Until the early 1960s, the only form of legal assistance available to the poor was provided through an informal network of private legal aid societies supported by charities or city funding, and on occasion by the vounteer efforts of private lawyers. Then in 1962, Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Poverty," which created a federal Legal Services Program under the auspices of the Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO). Over the next decade, however, that program fell out of the Administration's good grace: Vice President Spiro Agnew labelled its lawyers "ideological vigilantes, and many officials in the federal government...
MARRIED. Luci Baines Johnson, 36, daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Ian Turpin, 38, a Scottish banker based on Grand Cayman Island; both for the second time; at the L.B.J. Ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Her 1966 marriage to Patrick Nugent ended in divorce 13 years later. This time 300 friends were invited to the reception. "It was small from our perspective," said the bride...