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Recruiting Effort. "Grow more and waste less," he urged. "Drive less, heat less." Wearing a red-and-white lapel button reading "WIN"-for Whip Inflation Now-he called "upon every American to join in this massive mobilization and stick with it until we do win as a nation and as a people." At White House request, newspapers the next day printed an enlistment form for "inflation fighters"; the first 100,000 people to fill out the form and mail it to the White House will get a free WIN button...
...echoed by Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary and now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who is the board's newest member. Republican Weidenbaum favored Ford's proposals to stimulate investment and eliminate regulatory laws that increase prices, yet he regarded the WIN button campaign as juvenile hoopla and jested that the next logical step would be "pom-pom girls and cheerleaders...
...processes, they entice voters who have lived through totalitarian regimes. At the same time, Communists along the southern tier are capitalizing on anti-Americanism - particularly in Greece, where Washington is currently despised for its Turkish tilt over Cyprus. The danger to the U.S. and the Western alli ance in button-down Communism is that it could eventually lead to a weakening of NATO or the elimination of U.S. military bases that underpin the defenses of Western Europe...
...Panic Button. Though Bundy's talk of dissolution may have been overdramatic, his comments focused wide attention on the plight of philanthropic organizations: at a time when their gifts are more urgently needed, they have less to give. Before the stock-market slide, good times lured many foundations into the habit of dipping into capital for important projects. Over the past two years, Ford has given away about $494 million-well over twice its income...
...Ford Foundation announcement, Board Chairman Alexander Heard cautioned that "we ought to guard against pushing the panic button too hard or too soon." Yet there are those who think that Ford is already pressing it too hard. In what seemed to be a gentle reproof, Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, commented: "Organizations such as ours have a magnificent opportunity in times of depression or turmoil to stand firm...