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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States is so deep in swimmers. Thank goodness they both got a chance to show their ability this summer," he added...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: A Change in Altitude | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...said to be so great that massive tax relief would create more supply than demand and lower inflation. This is indeed a counter-Keynesian conclusion since it associates a huge increase in fiscal stimulus with a reduction in inflation. The challenge to this school of supply economics is to show empirically that the supply response created by a massive tax cut would be greater than the boost in demand. Otherwise, Kemp-Roth is just another recipe for inflation...

Author: By Otto Eckstein, | Title: Supplying the Answers | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...most vulgar side of American free capitalism is your desire to show off your free capital," Wyllie said, charging that the American obsession with cars is a "new machismo...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Harvard Team Wins Debate On U.S. Role in Energy Crisis | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...portrayed by Pat Carroll in this one-woman show at Greenwich Village's Circle Repertory, Gertrude is domineering, boastful and vain. But she is also vulnerable and, to those who know her only by reputation, surprisingly funny. Carroll, who commissioned Marty Martin to write a Stein monologue, captures her earthy humor as well as her wit. But at the same time, she conveys the pathos of being fat, female and homosexual in the early part of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Spell of Words | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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