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...first place. All the gains would evaporate at once; prices would rise sharply to make up for the hold-down, and wages would jump to keep pace. The federal official charged with special responsibility for Phase 2 is Herbert Stein of the Council of Economic Advisers, an outspoken economist who was a vigorous opponent of wage-price regulation only a few months...
...blast from Bologna may have been the harshest so far, but it was not the most influential. That came last month when Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, primate of Belgium and outspoken leader of the "loyal opposition" within the church (TIME, Aug. 1, 1969), attacked the Lex Fundamentalis in an interview with Director Richard Guilderson of the National Catholic News Service. Though the cardinal left open the question of "whether or not a constitutional law of the church is at all possible," he assailed both the timing and the content of the present draft, borrowing liberally from Alberigo's study...
Died. The Right Rev. Angus Dun, 79, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., between 1944 and 1962 an outspoken liberal; of a stroke; in Washington. "I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic," said Bishop Dun, who as a child overcame a congenital defect that warped his limbs, only to lose a leg to polio later. "It is only the love of God that redeems the human tragedy." A strong supporter of the World Council of Churches, Dun was an ardent ecumenist...
...personnel, Richardson wisely retained Under Secretary John Veneman, Finch's best appointment, a health and welfare expert enjoying considerable respect on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, Richardson has transformed the departmental hierarchy. With the departure of James Farmer, the only black in the department's upper reaches, and outspoken Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., HEW has lost important symbols of social passion. But two of his appointees, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Laurence Lynn Jr. and the education commissioner, Sidney Marland Jr., have brought a new level of expertise and technocratic brilliance...
...born in San Antonio, Texas, attended the University of Michigan for a year, then switched to West Point, where he graduated fifth in his class (1954), and later took his master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics at M.I.T. Even more than most astronauts, he is an outspoken patriot. When colors were being suggested for Apollo 15's emblem, Scott asked, "What's wrong with red, white and blue?" Those were the colors selected. Scott is married and the father of a boy and a girl...