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...most interesting of the Dulles family was Eleanor, an intelligent and independent woman forced to work all her life in her brothers' shadows. In 1926 her doctoral thesis at Radcliffe was published under the title The French Franc. John Maynard Keynes declared it "the best book on monetary inflation that I know." After World War II, Eleanor played a major part in helping Austria reorganize its economy...
Harvard couldn't breathe easy, though, until the final buzzer because the Bruins slipped in a four-point play with 33 seconds showing on the clock. Dwayne Maynard hit the first of a one-and-one situation but missed the second. Pete Moss snared the rebound and sunk the bucket, and was fouled to boot, putting the Bruins within three, 68-65. That was the closest Brown came as Fine dribbled down the clock...
...unconcern about the dollar's slide to intervening actively in currency markets to prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity for listening first to one economic adviser, then to another, Washington wits began quoting, accurately or not, a scathing description of Franklin Roosevelt supposedly offered by Economist John Maynard Keynes: "The President is like a big, fluffy pillow. He bears the imprint of the last person...
Adding up the plusses and minuses, Chase Manhattan Bank's chief European economist, Geoffrey Maynard, asserts...
Atlantans rightly pride themselves on their good race relations. Blacks and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the 1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly white business establishment...