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...presidential race. Last week his hopeful answer appeared inevitable when his wife Keke bought him a new, dark blue suit. Proudly wearing it, Anderson, 57, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and thus third-ranking member in the leadership, became the seventh G.O.P. candidate.* Said the ten-term Congressman: "I have been in the leadership for ten years. After watching Carter, I have no reservation about my ability...
White House economic advisers tirelessly insist that the guidelines can still be made to work through the force of public opinion. Though Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal agreed that the guidelines would have to be "reviewed and updated," there are marked differ- ences within the Administration on short-term anti-inflation policy. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's chief inflation adviser, is urging the President to press a dramatic policy that would ask Congress for legislative ratification of the standards, deny federal business to companies violating the guidelines, and require 90-day prenotification on any important pay or price changes...
Newspaper editors have a fear that they aren't admired enough. John Hughes, who retired this month as editor of the Christian Science Monitor and last month completed a term as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, warned his colleagues in a farewell address that "our profession . . . isn't currently in high repute. The polls indicate that our credibility with the public is lower than that of many other professions." There are three things wrong with that statement. Newspaper editing isn't a profession, its public standing is about as high as it ever...
DIED. Leonard Hall, 78, former Republican Congressman from Long Island who, as G.O.P. national chairman in the mid '50s, helped persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for a second term despite his 1955 heart attack, and then orchestrated his big 1956 win over Democrat Adlai Stevenson; of a stroke; in Glen Cove...
Factors other than a loss of faith in government may also be at work: a competitive culture, high anxiety about the economy and conflicting reports on which shortages are long-term or temporary. Says Sociologist Jackie Boles of Georgia State University: "At times like this we need strong leadership to jolt people out of this competitive behavior. Unfortunately, our leadership has said, 'Yes, we have an energy shortage,' and 'No, we don't have an energy shortage.' People are operating in a vacuum of leadership." Adds Brenner: "The public will try to get the facts...