Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Childhood, that traditional turf of the first novelist, is examined at a distance in William McPherson's refreshing debut, Testing the Current (Simon & Schuster; 348 pages; $15.95). The slow awakening of youth is noted in minutely observed and somewhat magnified detail, but at a third-person remove, almost as if the author were examining his cast through binoculars...
After flings with Keynesianism and supply-side economics, the U.S. should return to traditional conservative policies. That is Herbert Stein's message in Presidential Economics - The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Simon & Schuster; 414 pages; $16.95). Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1972 to 1974, describes how more than 30 years of such liberal standbys as tax cuts and increasing Government regulation helped bring about the runaway inflation of the late 1970s. "By 1980," he writes, "the country was ready for a more radical turn of economic policy...
That possibility seems short-lived. The ink was barely dry on the court's decision when Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey introduced a bill to reverse it. In anticipation of the Bildisco ruling, Democratic Congressman Paul Simon of Illinois in early February submitted legislation to amend the National Labor Relations Act. "The court's decision was so total," said Captain Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, "if this doesn't gear up organized labor for a massive blitz on Congress, nothing will...
Public response in South America to the visit was overwhelmingly positive Uruguayan people shouted "Long live the democratic king!" to the dismay of the country's military government and Venezuela gave him the Bolivar Medal in honor of "the Liberator," Simon Bolivar...
...most attractive Democratic candidate in Illinois would probably be Rep. Paul Simon, who is stepping down from the Congressional seat he has held for ten years. But Simon, whose vocal support for higher education funding as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Post-secondary Education has helped win him respect from liberals, must overcome three rivals in the Democratic primary...