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...friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat who got things done. Because of their persuasive lobbying, the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, originally set up to be a watchdog group, never seriously...
After Saturday's rally, most of the supporters returned to the shopping district to man picket lines at Filene's and Jordan Marsh. Although the strike committee has picketed Filene's and Milton's in Chestnut Hill and Quincy, since the summer, Saturday was the first time it has picketed Jordan Marsh...
...spot check of leading independent and chain stores in metropolitan Boston indicated Friday that anticipation of stepped-up boycott pressure has not affected larger stores. Jordan Marsh, Kennedy's Filene's and Milton's all plan business as usual this week...
Echoing this view, Economist Milton Friedman, a leading conservative, said that there is a "good chance" of a recession next year. Consumer prices, Friedman contended, would probably continue to climb 6% or 7%, only slightly less than the thoroughly oppressive level of 8% estimated for this year. The Government announced last week that living costs rose at an annual rate of 3.6% in September, a steep drop from the explosive 22.8% increase in August. Even so, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Sidney Jones declared that inflation is "still awful...
Erickson's successes have been described in a new and hagiographic book, Uncommon Therapy: the Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (Norton; $8.95), written by Jay Haley, his longtime colleague and admirer. Haley shows how, out of hypnosis, Erickson has drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling...