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...Administration has another reason for keeping hands off farm product prices, and Marina von Neumann Whitman, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is becoming the chief public defender of the policy. "If you prevent the market from attempting to fulfill supply and demand," she said recently, "then something is going to have to happen, like rationing." Food controls could keep prices so low that farmers would have little incentive to expand production to meet demand, so controls could lead to shortages and black markets. The words may sound convincing to housewives who remember World...
Marina von Neumann Whitman, D.H.L., member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...that every man contains within himself, "just as," in Rilke's phrase, "a fruit enfolds its stone." How does old age feel? To Juvenal, it was "a perpetual train of losses." To Jonathan Swift, it meant "a state of permanent anger." Even the master exulter of all, Walt Whitman, was finally brought, in his own words, to "whimpering ennui...
...didn't double-team him, which is what he was used to," Munro said. "He kept looking for the spare man to feed him the ball, and of course there was no spare man. Steve Whitman did as good a job covering him singly as anyone I've ever seen...
...search committee reportedly discussed the position of Radcliffe President with at least two other people: Eleanor Maccoby, psychology professor at Stanford, and Marina K. Whitman, economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh and member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Whitman is also a candidate for the Board of Overseers...