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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Blumenthal, the outspoken Secretary of the Treasury. Nominated to replace him was G. William Miller, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board since 1977. Miller will be succeeded temporarily at the Federal Reserve by Frederick Schultz, a former Florida banker and Carter crony, who was confirmed as a board member by the Senate only last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Coming on top of the energy speech, the Cabinet shake-up stunned commentators and ordinary citizens abroad. Disappointed with U.S. inaction on energy, European political leaders generally were happy to see Energy Secretary James Schlesinger go. They cheered the firing of Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who has never lived down his brief willingness a year ago to allow the dollar to fall to its lowest levels ever. They applauded his replacement by G. William Miller, who as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board showed a tough-minded determination to protect the dollar by tightening up on money policy, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Slumping to a New Low Abroad | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

With the resignation of Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and the shift of G. William Miller from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board to Blumenthal's job at Treasury, the nation's first-string economic team has been radically altered. TIME Business Correspondent George Taber analyzes the prospective impact of these changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Changing the Economic Team | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

When the Harvard Employment office moved upstairs in Holyoke Center recently, it created space for the bookstore, Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said Wednesday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Bookstore to Move; Holyoke Center Rent Hike May Force Owner to Sell | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

Working with an evocative period rock score and Michael Chapman's moody cinematography, Director Philip Kaufman brings off some colorfully overheated scenes: a vicious free-for-all on a football field, an erotic strip-poker game at a make-out party, a racial confrontation in a classroom. Sometimes the ten sion is flecked with humor. When the chief Wanderer (Ken Wahl) and his nebbishy sidekick (John Friedrich) get particularly horny, they go to hilariously elaborate lengths to press the flesh of neighborhood women. The laughs are crude, but in character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Showing Off | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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