Word: minding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he asks The Question ("Hey, you don't mind if me and a couple of buddies use your floor?") be wary. He might mean he wants to sleep there, but usually it's a tip off that he is about to throw...
...Vermont, where the two economists have vacation homes next to each other. Not surprisingly, Friedman hailed Burns' appointment as "splendid." Friedman admits, however, that "Arthur takes a long time to make decisions, and once he has made them, it is very difficult to get him to change his mind." Economist Raymond J. Saulnier adds that Burns "is ponderous and a little pontifical." Because of these qualities, some other economists predict that there will be more than a few resignations from the Federal Reserve staff after Burns takes over...
...crucial matter of handling the economy, Nixon has been following Burns' advice. They are in agreement: the pressures that are being applied are right, and results will come if the Government stays on its course. Because Burns is reluctant to change his mind once he has made it up, he could stay on that course too long. Burns will unquestionably continue to have Nixon's ear. But there is some doubt in Washington about what will happen when the President decides that the time has come to switch from anti-inflation to antirecession policies-and quietly calls...
...pages. Harper & Row. $10. In a book much talked about since its 1964 publication in France, the world's most fascinating social anthropologist studies scores of primitive mythologies, searching for a common code that he hopes will reveal the laws that govern the creative workings of the human mind...
...ANGELS by Theodora Ward. 241 pages. Viking. $7.50. Angelic evolution-from divine messenger to artistic symbol-delicately traced through religion, literature and the dark corners of the human mind...