Word: miltons
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...Harvard University for his work in explaining the structure of the chemicals called boranes. Together with the previous awards of the medicine prize to Baruch Blumberg of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research and Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health, and the economics prize to Economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 25), last week's winners gave the U.S. a clean sweep of the 1976 Nobel science awards...
When he learned last week that the Swedish Royal Academy of Science had chosen him as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, the University of Chicago's feisty Milton Friedman pronounced himself "happy and pleased." But, he added with characteristic bluntness, "it is not the pinnacle of my career. The true judges of my work are today's economists. " Brooklyn-born Friedman, 64, leader of the so-called Chicago School of monetarist economics, thus became the sixth American to win or share the tax-free $ 160,000 award since the prize in economics...
...many of the summer's gems have turned to glass. Four out of five letters are devoted to correcting stories from the July/August issue. An explanation at the end of the letters section shatters "The Best Crystal Balls on the Bus" piece by telling us that the writer, Milton S. Gwirtzman, is on Jimmy Carter's staff. Then, as if to rub things in a bit, More's editors note that Gwirtzman's "involvement with Carter in no way diminishes his analysis." Sure. And perhaps Gwirtzman didn't have it in mind to butter up a few national reporters...
...Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law, has perhaps a longer standing commitment to the Carter campaign than anyone from Harvard currently involved in advising the ticket. He has been serving in what he describes as "a general advisory capacity" to Carter since September, 1975, and had been in touch with Carter by mail several months before that...
...Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law, has perhaps a longer standing commitment to the Carter campaign than anyone from Harvard currently involved in advising the ticket. He has been serving in what he describes as "a general advisory capacity" to Carter since September, 1975, and had been in touch with Carter by mail several months before that...