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...decade was in many ways fascinating and often fun. Everyone who lived through the period carries a mental collage of its dense popular culture; one remembers it now with a small smile of disbelief at the ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended...
Indexation, the system of pegging payments such as salaries or Government Social Security benefits to the rate of inflation, is a siren that has attracted supporters on both the political right and left. Milton Friedman, a sometime adviser to Ronald Reagan, has advocated COLAs as a stopgap to mitigate the social disruptions caused by soaring prices while action is taken to bring inflation under control. And Rudy Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, says, "Indexation allows workers to make up for some of the inflation that has taken place...
...that if the brothers did beat the Mexicans, they were justified in doing so, for the region has long been plagued with burglaries committed by aliens. "Many ranchers feel they get burglarized all the time, and they feel it's about time someone did something about it," observes Milton Jamail, a University of Arizona researcher. Patrick Hanigan's trailer home had indeed been robbed a month before the alleged tortures took place. Others argue that the Hanigans, guilty or not, have suffered enough. The Hanigan home for example, has been peppered by rifle shots. "It's water...
...rumpled, impulsive Silverman is notoriously clumsy at firing subordinates. Two weeks ago, he sent cigar-chomping Hollywood Lawyer Milton Rudin to Pfeiffer's porticoed house in an exclusive, guarded section of Greenwich, Conn. Rudin reportedly made it clear that Pfeiffer was finished. The following Monday, Silverman called Pfeiffer into his Rockefeller Plaza office and told her that she would have to resign. Yet she apparently left thinking there was still some room for negotiation. Then, when she learned that her resignation had been requested, she turned livid and picked up the phone...
...Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman...