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Simple Relief. As Nixon continues his careful preparations for the Inauguration, ten task forces are preparing reports on such problems as taxes, transportation, public welfare, and the environment. Michigan Economist Paul McCracken, a member of Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, will supervise the writing of reports on what one aide called "the swords of Damocles hanging over our heads...
...from. Another imponderable is the consumer: he is presently saving money at the high rate of 7% of disposable income. Economists speculate that, with the tax increase," he will reduce saving but continue to spend. In a study released by Commercial Credit Co., University of Michigan Professor Paul W. McCracken estimated that the average American is in a mood to spend, should increase his buying of durable goods by 8% in spite of tax increases...
Italy's Alberto Burri, who began by charring panels of wood, now creates haunting images by scorching skeins of plastic; after all, since nature is in a state of constant metamorphosis, fire, which transmutes plastic's clarity into murk, is a legitimate artist's tool. Philip McCracken offers a long, narrow Plexiglas case, with five light bulbs lined up inside, four of them shot to bits and bullet holes piercing the case on either side of them. The piece seems to ask the question "When?" as the eye canvasses the damage already done and the mind awaits...
...group headed by Gainsbrugh: N.Y.U. Professor Solomon Fabricant, Du Pont Economist Ira T. Ellis, Michigan U. Professor Paul W. McCracken, American Airlines Vice President George P. Hitchings, Bank of America Vice President Walter E. Hoadley, U.S. Steel Economist William H. Peterson, N.Y.U. Professor Jules Backman, Bankers Trust Vice President Roy L. Reierson, Ragnar D. Naess of Naess & Thomas, investment counselors, Commerce Department Economist Louis J. Paradiso, and James W. Knowles, research director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee...
This was somewhat the case at Sanders last night as planist Robert Helps, violinist Isadore Cohen and 'cellist Charles McCracken teamed up to perform the well-known and beloved work. By professional strandards, it was a fairly sloppy performance. The strings, especially the 'cello, suffered periodic spates of bad intonation; phrasing in the piano seemed to lack contour and direction; and on the whole the three sounded as if they had not much time to play together...