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...country's leading business and academic economists, who perform a vital service by tipping us off to what the economic community is thinking about and pointing out future trends." (Current members: Otto Eckstein of Harvard University, Martin Feldstein of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, James McKie of the University of Texas and Joseph Pechman and Charles Schultze of the Brookings Institution.) Two of the board's distinguished alumni are currently high officials in the Reagan Administration: Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic...
...their lyrics. "Their lyrics were very positive, and most of us at the time felt very positive about our own futures and the future of England." Schama says his favorite rock band during the '60s was the Who. "The thing that endeared the Who" to him was seeing Pete Townsend and Keith Moon breaking their instruments at a concert, he says with a smile...
...annulment. Nor did he divorce Anne or any of his succeeding four wives.* The ancient Anglican church tradition forced King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret's 1978 divorce from the Earl of Snowden was the first to occur in the immediate royal family...
...whites to spend a lifetime on Puget Sound. Jettisoning a young family and comfortable life in Boston, Swan followed the feverish impulse to scrap it all and go west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded...
...tomb site a professor and his assistant (Charlton Heston and Susannah York) are prizing open the evil princess's mummy case. Back in camp his wife (Jill Townsend) goes into labor-two months early. A mysteriously difficult birth ensues. No one needs a translation of the hieroglyphics in the burial place to know what is happening-the soul of the royal personage is reversing the usual journey, moving from tomb to womb...