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When Margaret Court finishes each match in this week's stop on the Virginia Slims women's professional tennis tour at the Boston Harbor Marina Tennis Club in Squantum--she lets her poker face relax into a smile for a few autograph seekers and then walks into the carpeted press room behind the grandstand...
...that can be achieved, he said, 1973 can be, not just "a very good year" like 1972, but "a great year" in which the U.S. will "enter into a sustained period of strong growth, full employment and price stability." His three-member Council of Economic Advisers-Herbert Stein, Marina von Neumann Whitman and Ezra Solomon-went on to describe the prospects in a 301-page report that could best be characterized as soberly glowing...
Fittingly enough, the first CEA report to be prepared partly by a woman -Marina von Neumann Whitman, the council's only female member-is also the first to contain a chapter on the role of women in the economy. The chapter was included because CEA Chairman Herbert Stein was asked to write an article for the Ladies' Home Journal on the subject; looking into the matter, he discovered what Mrs. Whitman calls "a mass of ignorance." The CEA report cuts through that ignorance in rather gloomy fashion and indicates that women have made startlingly little progress toward...
Fighting the new coastal requirements will be more difficult, though one Californian is making a spectacular try in court. Rudolph Esau, a partner in the Santa Barbara chrysanthemum-growing firm of Marina Mums Inc., explains that his plans to build greenhouses on his shoreline property are stymied by the new rules. "If we cannot develop our property," he reasons, "then our property is not worth anything to us." His class action therefore seeks full compensation from the state for all private-property owners up and down the coast: $509.1 billion worth of land. More realistic opponents are trying to control...
...fast and loose cash. There is not even an economist in the Georgetown government. "We have written away to the United Nations to get one, but we haven't heard back from them yet," explains Johnson. Real estate developers have plans for a deep-water harbor, a resort-marina complex and a forest of condominiums. In short, one of the Caribbean's last untouched spots is rapidly experiencing the uncertain joys of being brought up to date...