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...fail. Banker Beryl Sprinkel, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, believes that guidelines distort the normal give-and-take functioning of the economy and may actually contribute to inflation by encouraging unions and companies to push wages and prices up to the guideline limits. Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman has been more caustic: "Guideposts and pleas for voluntary compliance are halfway houses whose only merit is that they can more readily be abandoned than legally imposed controls...
...Milton Rauschenberg (he changed his name to Robert as a young man) was born on Oct. 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, a shabby, humid oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His father, Ernest Rauschenberg, was the son of an immigrant doctor from Berlin who had drifted to southern Texas and married a Cherokee. Port Arthur was no cultural center. Its symphony orchestra was the jukebox, the comics its museum. The nearest thing to art one could see was the cheap chromo-litho holy cards pinned up in the Rauschenberg living room (the whole family was devoutly active...
Sophomore Doug Thompson fills out this line, and at this point, you can speak of all newcomers. Third-liners Randy Millen, John Cochrane and Jon Garrity have yet to get their skates sharpened, as the former two are up from the freshmen team, the latter from Milton Academy, while fourth-liners Bryan Cook and Charley Peterson were, and pretty much still are, reserve forwards...
...Massachusetts was Kennedy's Georgia," Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law, said yesterday, explaining why the new administration will almost surely not reinstate the Harvard-Washington nexus of the Kennedy years...
Your unconscionable editorial (October 21) on the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Milton Friedman is a new low in Crimson history...