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Nixon's advisers tirelessly insist that what they used to call their "game plan"* for gradually deflating the economy is working on schedule. They have some outside support; Economist Milton Friedman last week decried "the hysteria emanating from Wall Street." The President, however, is getting increasingly nervous. With a congressional election coming in six months, the economic situation leaves his party vulnerable to the kind of criticism voiced by Economist John Kenneth Galbraith: "It is very hard to combine inflation with rising unemployment and a stock-market slump, but the Nixon Administration has managed...
...Friday morning houses will come to the base from the draft boards in Milton, Quincy. and Braintree. Some members of the anti-war group will picket and leaflet at these draft boards to inform draftees and their families about the action beforehand. Civilian base employees will also be leafleted on Wednesday and Thursday...
...Reserve gave primary attention to interest rates. In January, however, at its last meeting with Martin in the chair, the FOMC voted to pay somewhat more attention than previously to what its policies were doing to the actual supply of money. That step had long been urged by Economist Milton Friedman who believes that the availability of money, rather than its cost, determines how much businessmen and consumers borrow and spend. At the same meeting, the FOMC voted to end what Wall Streeters called the "Ice Age"-the last seven months of 1969, during which money supply did not grow...
...pointless book. It is a biography of Robert Kennedy and yet does not attempt to understand or explain him. Its failure to present a single coherent view of Kennedy-to illuminate his personality and probe it in depth-is a damning fault. Both authors were Kennedy "insiders": Milton Gwirtzman 54 was a political associate of Kennedy and William vanden Heuval was a close friend. It is surprising that they fail to go beyond the public view of Kennedy in their description...
Last February, the Department accepted unanimously most of the recommendations of a joint faculty-student committee to change the requirements of the Junior Examination, Accordingly, students who have already passed course examinations in the Bible. Shakespear. Milton, and Chaucer, or are currently enrolled in such courses, no longer need to be reexamined on this material. In order to give instant relief to the present junior class, these changes were made effective this year...