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Brimmer was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1966 to last August, and was one of the scholars summoned to President Ford's "mini-summits" on the economy...
...Defined more sharply the agreements and disagreements between the Administration and its critics, and afforded a rare opportunity for both sides to sound off publicly to the President himself, or to the Cabinet officers who chaired several of the mini-summits. Few disputed that budget and monetary policies will have to remain relatively tight. There are differences of degree-whether federal spending this fiscal year should be kept at its budgeted level of $305 billion or cut below $300 billion, as Ford proposes; whether the Federal Reserve should aim to expand the nation's money supply...
...week's end the crew showed no signs of relinquishing control of the liner, boasting that they had enough provisions on board to last until Christmas. They had set up a mini-government complete with premier and ministers in charge of administration, maintenance, security, information, leisure, domestic life and social and medical problems. They were also publishing a daily newspaper and had even devised a special postmark for their mail. Apparently they were working even harder than usual to keep the France in tiptop shape. But they rejected a call by Premier Jacques Chirac to end the strike...
...mini-Czechoslovakia," said one disconsolate painter as he walked away with a ripped canvas. "Now you know what they mean by socialist realism in art," said another. Five painters were arrested and charged with "petty hooliganism" for trying to resist the bulldozers. By week's end all had been released...
...Jews. These closed doors and all that followed caused the Jewish demand for immediate statehood at the risk of everything laboriously built up over two generations. It is this Israeli state which has now begun to recognize a Palestinian entity but not the right to an irredentist Palestinian mini-state...