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...controls imposed directly on the economy by Government officials. A mild joke in the White House is that "the only reason that Phase II may work is that the people who designed the controls do not believe in them." It was Connally, however, who insisted that the Administration commit itself to the simple objective of lowering price increases to a 2% or 3% rate about a year from now. He did so against the advice of some members of the Cost of Living Council, notably Shultz, who wanted no numerical guideline at all, and against others who wanted specific...
...Maurice were first-rank Forster, it might have bridged this gap. As it is, for a book whose theme is liberation, it is a curiously willed performance. Forster for once displays a one-tract mind. He does not commit anything as crude as a case history, but he flogs the narrative along in a straight line largely unadorned by the surprises and ambiguities that enrich his other plots. Boy meets boy, boy loses boy, second boy meets girl and takes up "normal" life, first boy meets another boy and affirms homosexual values in the face of hostile society. A prim...
...North America. In Bonn, Freelance Photographer Heinz Sütterlin wooed and won the plump secretary of a high Foreign Ministry official and sent nearly 1,000 secret papers to Moscow before a defector blew his cover and prompted the ill-used Mrs. Sütterlin to commit suicide. Heinz Felfe, who held a key position in the BND, the West German equivalent of the CIA, for ten years was a double agent who supplied the Soviets with the names of West German agents in the East, codes, dead-letter drops and courier routes. He all but wiped out BND operations...
...initial laughter. But we remeet him as he talks to a different sergeant, one who is kind, and placating who is, in fact, helping Hickman lace his boots. Hickman has let Basic, his awkward training errors, and the razzing of his bunkmates get to him. He has tried to commit suicide...
...refusing to commit himself politically, Kennedy was obviously leaving the options open for his own candidacy...