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Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...
...battle gracefully. For example, he had strongly advocated a "steady-as-she-goes" economic policy and urged Nixon not to attempt any radical fixes for stagnation and inflation. In 1971 Nixon suddenly imposed a new economic program that included wage and price controls. As a monetarist disciple of Milton Friedman, Shultz was strongly opposed. Nevertheless, he dutifully supported the program and was soon given responsibility for enforcing its cost-of-living guidelines...
These are among the scores of instances of mishandling cited by a major new study of drug promotion, sales, uses and abuses in Third World countries. The report was conducted over a period of eight years by Pharmacologist Milton Silverman of the University of California at San Francisco; his wife, U.C.S.F. Research Associate Mia Lydecker; and former HEW Assistant Secretary Dr. Philip Lee. Melodramatically titled Prescriptions for Death, the 172-page report diagnoses "an acute deficiency of social responsibility" on the part of the international pharmaceutical industry...
...stories in the past three months seemed to be setting out in a different direction. An April article on poverty in the U.S., with a controversial combination of cover billings ("Reagan's America"; "And the Poor Get Poorer"), was castigated in Newsweek's own pages by Columnist Milton Friedman for giving a "most misleading impression." The following week's cover billed the "final days" of Leonid Brezhnev, and based the story on an unconfirmed report of a stroke supposedly suffered by the Soviet President. Said an upset Newsweek staffer recently: "The guy's still alive...
...Yeah, it's changed a lot," muses Meltzer. "As recently as ten years ago, there was a cafeteria on Vine Street, next to a theater where there were a lot of these television shows. You'd see people like Danny Thomas and Milton Berle. But those are the people who wouldn't be caught dead around here any more...