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Understandably high on the agenda was oil. The Shah, who helped spearhead the 1973-74 quadrupling of OPEC prices, recently promised Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal that he would be "neutral" at next month's OPEC price policy meeting in Caracas. Carter argued forcefully that an increase in oil prices would kick off a new round of inflation that would damage both oil consumers and producers. The President's well-rehearsed presentation impressed the Shah, who agreed to go to Caracas committed to an oil-price freeze, a view also supported by Saudi Arabia. Said the Shah...
...Michael Blumenthal, Treasury Secretary. He has the predominant voice in foreign economic decisions but less impact on domestic affairs. He now appears to be winning a tax plan that would cut rates heavily for corporations as well as individuals. Last week, putting on the record what was already known, he told a Senate committee that the "first priority" of Carter's tax bill will be to lower rates, and that the measure will be kept "relatively simple to build confidence." That apparently means it will contain little reform; as Blumenthal well knows, the President's intention to propose...
Directed by Michael Ritchie...
...clipboard on the wall next to the Gilbert elevator caught on fire," Michael R. Moynihan, resident tutor, said yesterday, adding that he thought someone had set the fire with a match. Moynihan said he pulled the clipboard off the wall and stomped on it to put the fire...
This weekend, the men's team placed a distant ninth in the 12-team fleet at the Atlantic Coast championships at Yale, rounding out an up-and-down fall season. But despite the dismal showing against the victorious Elis, coach Michael Horn has reason to look forward to an interesting spring season. Remembering the triumphs of last fall--last week's impressive victory in the War Memorial Trophy regatta against a fleet that included Yale and a host of other New England powerhouses, as well as the early-season victory in the Penobscot Bay Open regatta--all Horn...