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Neither of the men who glared at each other across the prisoner's dock in a crowded Moscow courtroom looked very much like a spy. Dapper Greville Maynard Wynne, 44, was a salesman who lived quietly in London's fashionable Chelsea section with his wife and young son when he was not on the road selling electrical machinery in Russia and Eastern Europe. Slender Oleg Penkovsky, 44, was a much-decorated Russian war hero who recently had held the delicate job of arranging East-West scientific exchanges for a Soviet state committee. But last week the incongruous pair...
Died. Sir Dennis Holme Robertson, 72, Cambridge professor of political economy from 1944 to 1957 and one of Britain's most respected academic economists, who, working with John Maynard Keynes in 1926, wrote Banking Policy and the Price Level, which initiated Keynesian economics by examining the function and effect of savings in a capitalist economy, later broke with Keynes, believing him guilty of exaggerations and misrepresentations; of a heart attack; in Cambridge...
...argument is older than the New Frontier, and for all the Administration's talk of bold new solutions, it was oldfashioned (but never fully accepted) John Maynard Keynes doctrine. Though old hat to economists, it might be hard to sell to the Congress, or, for that matter, to the people. With a touch of irony. Congresswoman Griffiths pointed out to Gordon that "we began this Administration with a call for sacrifices, and when you offer a tax cut, it sounds as if you were not asking for a sacrifice." Yet. by advocating tax reduction with the budget deep...
...combination of actions by business, the public and the Administration, plus the happenstance of foreign affairs, changed the mood. The Administration launched a drive, at first greeted with great suspicion, to regain business confidence. It began paying attention to one of the lesser-known dicta of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, an intellectual godfather of the New Deal. The Keynes' dictum: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...
...people try to check Mr. Tigar's madness. They are miss Mary Lou Sullivan (Elsie Maynard), who has a faultless voice, and who seams to like what she is singing, and Mr. Terrence Currier, the Colonel Fairfax already alluded to, whose effortless and unexaggerated performance must make him feel very out of place...