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John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, has unexpectedly found himself the center of civic controversy in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...Galbraith was invited early this month to speak at the dedication of the city's new $2.5 million library Oct. 30. Last Tuesday, Salt Lake City's mayor, J. Bracken Lee, a noted ultraconservative, wrote a protest to the Public Library Board and commented, "If you insist on having a man like Mr. Galbraith, you might also consider finding someone else to accept the building on behalf of Salt Lake City instead of myself...
...said yesterday, however, that he would attend the Library's dedication. He also indicated that his letter was meant only as a protest against the expenditure of public funds by the Library Board to bring Galbraith to Salt Lake City...
...SCOTCH, by John Galbraith. In this memoir of his childhood in a frugal Scotch community in Ontario, the author of The Affluent Society documents the tightwad society. It is a diverting study of the Scotch and an intriguing, ironic insight into the formative influences that made Economist Galbraith an evangelist of big spending...
...oiks back home must be mightily disturbed by Galbraith's advocacy of deficit spending. On the other hand, how could they possibly disapprove of a man who has devoted a lifetime to the study of money...