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...Charles Murray, an M.I.T. educated political scientist who has delved into the statistics on poverty, has written an unflinching defense of trickle-down economics. In an essay distributed by the conservative Heritage Foundation, Murray argues that Stockman should never have been taken to the woodshed...
...Murray, 39, spent six years studying the effectiveness of various Government spending programs for the American Institutes for Research, a nonpolitical Washington-based think tank. After leaving A.I.R. last year to become an independent consultant, Murray began to study the impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society on the level of poverty. To his surprise, Murray found that the prevalence of poverty in the U.S. had fallen just as rapidly during the Eisenhower years, when social spending was much lower...
...Murray concludes that the level of poverty depends upon the performance of the economy rather than the rate of Government social spending. Increases in poverty in the past three decades were concentrated during the years in which the gross national product fell: 1954,1958, 1970, 1974 and 1975. During all other years, poverty declined...
Meanwhile, in the American League, the Baltimore Orioles slammed four home runs, including a grand slam by first baseman Eddie Murray, to clobber the Kansas City Royals...
...upon a stage or gone before the cameras. In months to come, John Irving will be seen as a wrestling coach in the film version of his novel The World According to Garp, Herlihy will play the king of the hobos in a new play by California Playwright Henry Murray, and Novelist and Screenwriter John Sayles will take Plimpton's cue and assume the role of seducer in a film titled Lianna...