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Lester C. Thurow, 36, has been a full professor of economics and management at M.I.T. since he was 33. Montana-born, educated at Williams, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar) and Harvard, Thurow was a staffer for the Council of Economic Advisers during the opening shots of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. As a member of George McGovern's 1972 Cambridge brain trust, he proposed a potent inheritance tax as a step toward redistributing the 45% of the wealth held by 2.5% of the U.S. population. That and other such programs stirred a row, says Thurow, because...
...exert more influence on U.S. businessmen than any other journalist. He is editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, an operation regarded as being separate from the rest of the paper. Born in Marshall, Minn., and educated at Iowa State and Wisconsin, Bartley became a Journal staffer in 1962. After ten years of reporting, writing editorials and turning out think pieces for the editorial page, he was tapped for his present post. The Journal's editorials generally reflect Bartley's economic conservatism but are less predictable than in previous years. Lately the paper urged...
...often all too easy for sources to talk without having to take full responsibility for what they say. In many cases, however, attribution is impossible because people who possess highly sensitive information cannot be expected to sacrifice their careers in order to divulge it. A Capitol Hill staffer or an FBI official, for instance, may have evidence of serious abuses that should be aired. If he cannot get a hearing within...
Order was enforced by electronic means. Before speaking, a member had to push a button that winked a light on the console in front of Staffer Louis Vance, who turned on the member's microphone. Only Presidential Special Counsel James St. Clair did not have a microphone. Under the rules, he was allowed to say nothing unless he obtained permission in advance from Rodino. St. Clair's principal functions were to relay the committee's evidence to the White House and, two or three times a day, defend the President to reporters gathered outside the door...
Garrett, a Chicago securities lawyer who served on the SEC staff in the 1950s, quickly supported the elevation of Veteran Staffer Irving M. Pollack to a seat on the five-member commission (TIME, Feb. 11), a move that boosted morale by demonstrating respect for professionalism. Enforcement activities have picked up, as the recent filing of long-awaited fraud suits in the Penn Central case shows...