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True enough. Duesenberry, 47, will arrive in Washington at a pivotal time in the council's 19-year history: just when the economy needs more skillful Government management than ever to prolong prosperity without bringing on inflation. The biggest difficulty, Council Chairman Gardner Ackley explained last week in a Manhattan speech, is that "economists simply don't know" enough about how a high-employment economy works to enable them to act "with a high degree of reliability." Adds Duesenberry: "Our problem is to get as much flexibility as we can into 1966 policies, and to avoid any irreversible...
...bitter Harlem riots of 1964, as in the Watts uprising last August, a handful of Negro demagogues helped to prolong and aggravate the violence. On the hot summer night when New York's black ghetto boiled over, a disgruntled Communist named William Epton incited a street-corner crowd: "We will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally." Later, Epton cried: "In that process, we're going to have to kill a lot of these cops, a lot of these judges, and we'll have to go up against their army...
...believe that whatever happens, the Government will somehow keep the economy strong and rising. With this new confidence, they no longer worry so much about the short-term wiggles and squiggles of the economic curve but instead budget their capital spending for the long-term and thus help to prolong the expansion...
...makes such conciliatory suggestions, Powers is stepping up his demands. What he wants now is a guarantee from each of the papers that it will take on employees displaced by other papers because of merger or automation. The publishers have sworn to resist. "Labor and management," said Raskin, "can prolong their quarreling until the cake over which they quarrel crumbles into nothing...
Richard Nixon's antennae also were out. In the course of a business trip to the Far East, Nixon told newsmen in Tokyo that Washington's "constant repetition" of its willingness to negotiate would only prolong...