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...President has had many occasions lately to remember those remarks about his old friend and economics mentor. The Federal Reserve Board could pump enough money into the U.S. economy to increase greatly the chances that Nixon's glowing forecasts of fast production, profit and income growth in 1971 will come true. Since December, Nixon has been publicly implying that the board has a duty to do so; some aides make the argument in private with extraordinary vehemence. Last week Burns made it plain that despite this pressure he will be quite as independent as Nixon advertised and less accommodating...
Disillusioned Mentor. A directors' revolt forced Keck out of his $ 150,000-a-year job. He was a smart operations man, but he irritated board members by his strong-willed stands, often on minor issues. Some directors thought that his spending on new equipment was excessive, given the state of business. They criticized him for pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board too hard to increase fares and reduce competition...
Throughout the '50s, he maintained his contacts with Political Mentor Johnson, working behind the scenes on campaigns, lining up financial backing among his oil-industry friends and serving as Johnson's liaison man with local Democratic leaders. At the 1960 Democratic Convention, he headed Johnson's bid for the presidential nomination. When L.B.J. became John F. Kennedy's Vice President, Kennedy made Connally Secretary of the Navy...
...daughter Elizabeth in Paris, who set out for Colombey with her husband General Alain de Boissieu. Son Philippe, a navy captain stationed in Brest, was more difficult to locate. As a result, Pompidou was not notified until 4 a.m., and it was not until 17½ hours after his mentor's death that he finally went on television. "General de Gaulle is dead," he said. "France is a widow...
Died. Johannes Urzidil, 74, Prague-born writer, close friend and disciple of Franz Kafka, best known for There Goes Kafka, in which he explained that his mentor's tense angular sketches were not mere doodles, as many critics thought, but graphic expressions of individuality lost in authoritarian bureaucracy; of a stroke; in Rome...