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...University, where he became a protege of famed economist Franz Oppenheimer, a leading exponent of free enterprise. A dedicated mountaineer, Oppenheimer once took Erhard on a climb in the Alps. There, atop Mount Piz Corvatsch (11,339 ft.), the professor asked his student one final question about economics and forthwith an nounced that young Erhard had passed his Ph.D. examination. Chuckled Oppenheimer: "You are now the highest doctor on earth...
Alabama's Governor George Wallace was playing his own particular game. Wallace arrived at the conference snorting that "I just want to raise a little hell." He forthwith introduced a batch of resolutions designed to embarrass the Kennedy Administration-one, for example, would have condemned the Administration's civil rights package as "the most irresponsible piece of legislation ever sponsored by a national administration." But the other Governors refused to go along, and Wallace never brought his resolutions to a floor vote...
...medal should be struck off forthwith to honor Mapmaker Chapin's latest effort. His Malaysia map is a brilliant tour de force that deserves suitable recognition...
...that account was correct, growled Byrd. the President ought to fire Gordon forthwith.* "I submit that a man who thinks a balanced budget would be a catastrophe does not have the frame of mind to direct the budget . . . Responsible fiscal positions should be filled with sound men. If we do not get crackpot economists out of these positions, the American system will be lost...
Barreling down U.S. 17 toward Florida in a snappy grey Lincoln convertible Private Lucky Earl Beckwith, U.S.M.C. zoomed into the hamlet of Woodbine, Ga., was forthwith halted by the cops. A check revealed the real owner to be not so Lucky; he was New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein...