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...sports editor of the Dake Chronicle, Robert Heller, was told by Duke coach Bucky Waters that Fitzsimmons left for personal reasons. Waters said that Fitzsimmons, who lives in Milford, Conn., wanted to be nearer home...
...with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...wonders and horrors wear thin in months. If the West has truly declined to the point of broad collapse, the calamity itself should be enough to occupy generations of novelists. But no; barely nine years after Joseph Heller's Catch-22 bemused readers with loony proof that war is an insane farce, the somewhat similar propositions of Kurt Vonnegut can be read with mild impatience. Vonnegut is simply not saying enough. There is something mean and gritty in the two-transistor collective consciousness that asks, "O.K., O.K., the center cannot hold. Now what...
There is no doubt that the U.S. could stop inflation cold if it really wanted to. Some economists, notably including Arthur Okun and Walter Heller, * point out that many basic prices would come down quickly and sharply if the Government eliminated most farm-price supports, oil-import quotas, fair-trade laws and tariffs. The U.S. could also strike a mighty blow against inflation if it attacked union apprenticeship rules, which limit the supply and drive up the wages of skilled craftsmen. Economists concede that such structural changes are politically difficult if not impossible to enact. Still, the Government could change...
...that much could be accomplished by a return to the old wage-price guidelines. Advocates admit that the guidelines collapsed while the Johnson Administration pushed a clearly inflationary budget policy, but assert that they would be much more effective when combined with the present credit curbs and tight budget. Heller suggests that Nixon set up a "watchdog" agency in which business and labor leaders would join in setting "ground rules" for what might be acceptable wage and price increases. He also urges that Nixon adopt the policy of "phone calls, behind-the-scenes confrontations and friendly arm twisting" that Lyndon...