Word: heller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...about his ambition. He wants to be President, and he is working hard at it. For months he has been assembling a broad group of advisers, experts in foreign policy, economics, weapons systems, budgets, social programs. In his shadow Cabinet. Cyrus Vance serves as Secretary of State, Walter Heller as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Paul Warnke as Secretary of Defense...
...impossible. Herbert Stein, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, calculates that if full employment is to be reached on schedule, real gross national product-not counting price increases-must grow at an annual rate of 6%. His estimate closely parallels the view of Democrat Walter Heller, a former CEA chairman. Said Heller last week: "I am happy to see that they are starting to catch up with our arithmetic." The economy is far away from Stein's goal. Real G.N.P. rose only 1.4% in this year's third quarter, and it may decline...
Dang right, pardner. Not even the redoubtable Lee Marvin, sadly cast in the title role of Monte Walsh. He and Chet (Jack Palance) amble vaguely across Southwestern cattle country, swapping hand-rolled cigarettes and saddle-sore lines that would make a dogie bleat in an guish. Screenwriters Lukas Heller and David Goodman apparently drew their ideas from The Misfits and The Wild Bunch and hawg-tied them with early Zane Grey dialogue. The resulting wrangle is a tale of aging cowpokes in a changing West that ain't worth the price of a good branding iron...
...only thing worse than an antiwar play is war. The current mode is for such plays to be written by laughing Cassandras, doomsday seers with quips on their lips. A couple of seasons ago there was Joseph Heller's We Bombed in New Haven; now there is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Happy Birthday, Wanda June. There is a strong temptation to say "Catch-23, please skiddoo...
...WALTER HELLER, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...