Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made artistic progress in his more recent films, seemingly surrendering to his press image as another pretty-faced glamour boy. The promise of his career as seen in his earlier, more substantial roles, in films like Splendour in the Grass, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Parallax View appears undeveloped in his more recent roles as George, the heartily-sexed hairdresser in Shampoo and as Joe Pendleton in this film...
...associates say that he never made a subordinate work after 7 p.m. He insisted that the company's 43 highest executives take fully paid three-month sabbaticals every five years, just to recharge themselves. Miller spent one sabbatical building shelves in his garage. Senior Vice President J. Joseph Kruse is convinced that Miller pushed himself to practice squash and golf (his handicap is 17) primarily to spare associates the embarrassment of putting up with an inferior player who happened to be the boss. Kruse, who often golfed with Miller for $1 a hole, was mildly annoyed by his insistence...
...Miller is somewhat too quiet to suit Ariadna. The childless Millers are an exceptionally close couple, and spend many hours together listening to classical music and reading, mostly books of history and geography. But Ariadna has one complaint about her husband's work: Bill no longer unburdens himself by talking about the details of his job at home. So, just to keep up, she attends all the many congressional hearings at which he testifies...
...board in Washington is the final authority. A succession of forceful chairmen-Marriner Eccles (1936-48), William McChesney Martin (1951-70), Arthur Burns (1970-78) and now Miller-have caused the other governors to fade into public obscurity, but they still have influence. Next to Miller on the current board, J. (for John) Charles Partee, a former head of the Fed staff and wise student of the economy, has the most clout. Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there...
...took Eleanor Roosevelt to crash the men-only rule in the board's dining room. The successor is Nancy Teeters, 47, the chief economist of the House Budget Committee. She was chosen largely because she has strong liberal views that she argues forcefully; Carter sees the board, Miller excepted, as a hotbed of Hoover Republicanism...