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...teacher with a pair of scissors was subsequently released by the juvenile court and returned to the same school. The judge, it seems, felt that the boy had extenuating emotional problems stemming from a scar on his face. And in a cause celebre in Providence, a teacher attempting to restrain a sixth-grade student from punching and choking a classmate whacked the offender on the leg with a blackboard pointer. The school administration took action-against the teacher. The assailant went free...
...tight (actually, the Fed had been creating money steadily, but consumers had been saving rather than spending it). Also, though most of Nixon's advisers were adamantly opposed to governmental interference in the marketplace. Burns became an early and staunch advocate of some kind of "incomes policy" to restrain inflation. His arguments probably helped prepare the way for Nixon's wage-price freeze of 1971 and the price controls of Phase II in 1972-though that was not quite what Burns had in mind...
...modern Britain?that have been weakened or crushed by the weight of bureaucracy are too numerous to be ignored. The U.S., of course, is a long way from such a fate, but the warning signals have been flashed. Once bureaucracy has begun to grow, it is devilishly hard to restrain, much less reverse its advance. Such is the challenge that faces America. As he approaches his second year in office, Jimmy Carter could adopt no more crucial resolution than to keep his campaign promise to cut back Big Government...
...Jimmy Carter does) and he plots his genial strategy of survival. He wants another term as Fed chairman, and not because he likes to go to capital par ties and enjoys the aroma of power (which he does). But he thinks he is doing right by the nation to restrain the money sup ply, to preach a little caution, to stand immune from White House blandishments and politics. Burns views his ideas as good for the country's soul - and its pocketbook...
...further ease worries about inflation, Carter last week minimized the quarrel between the White House and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burn over the Fed's tight rein on growth in the money supply. The Fed's policy stands to restrain prices, but at the expense of slower economic growth. Claimed Carter of his relations with Burns, despite evidence to the contrary: "We've never had any disagreements on [economic]subjects...