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Other Cabinet officers have taken the initiative that Carter urged on them. To shift fuel faster to the Eastern part of the country, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal waived the law requiring domestic ships to carry cargo between U.S. ports. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus urged the Governors of twelve states battered by the winter to ask his department for help. Housing and Urban Development announced an emergency policy of aid to low-income-housing residents who are threatened with eviction or loss of utilities...
...another item in short supply is old-fashioned common sense. Herewith TIME'S all-purpose, endless-winter survival guide, as composed by Senior Writer Michael Demarest...
...Bert Lance, who was about to become director of the Office of Management and Budget, to tell him that a raise on tin plate was coming. Lance asked him to return to Washington to talk about it, and a week after the Inauguration, Speer met with Lance, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze in Lance's office. They agreed that a 4.8% increase would be justified by rising costs...
What kinds of people become managers in today's well-run corporations? The latest prober of the executive psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types. The first is the "craftsman," a gentle holder of traditional values, an admired worker so absorbed in his own specialty -engineering, finance, sales-that he cannot sense broad corporate goals, let alone lead a complex organization. Next comes the "jungle fighter," dog eat dog all the way, destroying peers, superiors and eventually himself. The "company man" is occasionally effective but lacks daring to bring about bold changes: his is a world dominated...
...between cathartic melodrama and historical events needs attention, however, if only because professional historians themselves have so much trouble respecting it. Slavery, so obvious in its lurid immorality, is apt to become especially distorted in the hands of American historians. "What is it about the black experience," asks Author Michael Novak, "that produces in so many good minds, black and white, a positive lust for corruptions of elementary sense?" The answers are probably 1) guilt and 2) ideology...