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...Kennedy Administration; and Arthur Okun, 47, who was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson. Charles Schultze, 51, Budget Director under Johnson, has been mentioned for Treasury or for CEA chairman. A possibility for Director of the Office of Management and Budget is Alice Rivlin, 45, head of the impressive new budget arm of the Congress...
...backgrounds, achievements and views of these women are amply detailed. Scores of others might be added to the list?distinguished lawyers, economists, business executives, actresses, writers. For example, Economist Alice Rivlin, chief of the new Congressional Budget Office, has taken on the tough job of analyzing for Senators and Congressmen just how their legislation will probably affect national spending, budget deficits, prices and employment. Sarah Caldwell, the formidable director of the Opera Company of Boston, week after next will become the first woman to conduct at the New York Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 10). Journalist Charlotte Curtis wields powerful political...
...this month, the CBO staff will produce budget estimates and an economic forecast for 1976. In the fall, using tallies and economic models prepared at Rivlin's behest by Chase Econometrics, Data Resources Inc. and the Wharton School, Congress will add up what it has actually appropriated in voting on separate bills and act to bring the total under the agreed-upon deficit ceiling...
...Rivlin already has much experience in analyzing budgets: as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, she co-authored studies of the 1972, 1973 and 1974 budgets under the title Setting National Priorities. She has spent 18 years as a professional budget watcher, part of it as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, helping to plan Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...
...daughter of a physicist, a Bryn Mawr alumna and a Radcliffe Ph.D. in economics, Rivlin, 44, is the wife of a Washington lawyer and the mother of three children-whose tasks have been lightened by housekeepers throughout her career. She became interested in economics during a summer course at Indiana University. Says she: "It seemed less fuzzy than history or political science." Short (5 ft. 2 in.) and an impeccable dresser, Rivlin is regarded by colleagues as even-tempered and firm but not stubborn...