Possible Huge Planning Agency To Direct U S Economic Policy
Herbert Stein proposes a single large planning organization to coordinate fiscal monetary and budget policy as Phase 4 ends urging caution against centralization while acknowledging limited planning may be necessary. Other economists advocate boards with Fed independence and multiagency interaction to avoid an economic dictatorship.
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American Economic Association
New York
Allied Social Science Associations
Herbert Stein
President's Council of Economic Advisers
United States
Washington
DEA
Stein
Soviet Union
University of Virginia
John T. Dunlop
Cost of Living Council
Congress
White House
Treasury
George Schultz
University of Chicago Business School
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve
Council of Economic Advisers
Executive Department
Obesity symposium ties weight loss to mindset
At Columbia University sponsored symposium on childhood obesity, over a thousand physicians heard that motivation drives weight loss and that obesity is a symptom, not a disease. Experts say diets must fit life, with small daily calories adding up. long term change depends on the individual.
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Columbia University
Institute of Human Nutrition
Myron Winick
Columbia Institute
Jean Mayer
Harvard
Warning of rare celestial event to recur January 8 and February 7
Forecasters warn a rare earth moon sun alignment similar to the March 6 and 7 event, which caused 40 deaths and half a billion dollars in damage from Long Island to North Carolina. The warning urges residents in low land inland and Atlantic Seaboard coast to heed precautions to save lives and property.
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Long Island
North Carolina
Atlantic Seaboard
John Chamberlain on a voluntary news council
The House adjourned without an energy bill, arguing fewer laws protect freedom. The piece warns against mandatory press codes during Spiro Agnew’s era and praises a newly formed National News Council aiming to foster responsible journalism.
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House of Representatives
Spiro Agnew
Congress
National News Council
Arab oil embargo critique and press freedom debates
The piece argues the Arab oil embargo was a strategic pressure played against the West and Israel, notes European responses like Poland’s coal expansion, and warns Americans to pursue nuclear power. It discusses Roger Traynor leading a study on press threats, praises Britain’s voluntary press council, and contemplates American voluntary watchdogs including Accuracy in Media as compatible with free press norms.
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Washington
Israel
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Japan
Africa
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
Norway
Nigeria
Poland
Roger Traynor
California Supreme Court
Florida Supreme Court
Miami Herald
James J Kilpatrick on Smoking and Health Ten Years On
A retrospective on the U.S. Surgeon General report from ten years earlier detailing rising evidence about smoking and lung cancer, shifts in advertising, public policy moves, and enduring consumer habits amid ongoing scientific uncertainty. It notes brand rank changes, warnings on packs, and limited effect on per capita consumption as decades pass.
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U.S
James
Luther L. Terry
Restrict Disaster Aid to Curb Federal Relief Abuse
An analysis of federal disaster relief by Prof. Howard Kunreuther finds widespread misuse of aid. Some receive funds for non quake damages, flood zones avoid insurance, and loans go to those rebuildable elsewhere. The piece argues tighter rules, proof of damage, and denial of grants for risky sites, while warning that generosity risks eroding aid trust.
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Congress
U.S
Howard Kunreuther
University of Pennsylvania
Kunreuther
Uncle Sam
U. S
Reflections on New York's Postwar Decline and Fitzgerald
Jeffrey Hart argues that the city long celebrated as a hub of possibility has fallen into decline postwar. He contrasts the midcentury energy of Manhattan with today’s violence, subway graffiti, eroding culture, and suburban lure, citing politicians, nightlife, and public life as faded echoes of the past. The piece laments a lost glitter and asks if New York can ever return.
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Queensboro Bridge
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York
Fitzgerald
Algonquin
Stork Club
Abe Beame
Times Square
Midtown
Eighth Avenue
Houston
Burbank
Calif
John Lindsay
Greenwich
Village
Denver
Santa Fe
San Diego
Scott Fitzgerald
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John Chamberlain
Voluntar
Ralph de Toledano
Los Angeles
Britain
Coke and Blackstone
British Press Council
Noel S. Paul
New York City
Buffalo
Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists
Paul
Accuracy In
Abe Kalish
Press Council
America
James J. Kilpatrick
Pall Mall
Lucky Strike
Chesterfield
Marlboros
Raleigh News and Observer
Jeffrey Hart
Nyc
Backwater
Pete Hamill
New York Post
Danville
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