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...sharp were the financial reverberations set off by Schlesinger's rather overwrought vision of a coming energy crunch that the Administration felt obliged to send forth Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal in the dollar's defense. Before a Senate committee, he cited Schlesinger's remarks about oil and said that this was "clearly the type of thing that causes people to run for gold." (Aides later maintained that Blumenthal had not been commenting on what Schlesinger had said, but on the Iranian situation itself.) Blumenthal forcefully reiterated that the Administration remains committed to maintaining stable market conditions...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch ∙ Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
...zoning dispute is only one gripe in a litany of city complaints against the University. Six city councilors, including the mayor of Cambridge, Thomas W. Danehy, fired off a letter late last month to members of the Board of Overseers, asking for their help in "reducing the tensions" between the city and the University...
...Ralph W. Dexter Narrowsberg...
Pihl and Charles W. Dunn '39, master of Quincy House, are coordinating the program, which they originated last October...