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...Luce, Executive Director...
...seen one moon, you've seen them all," observed Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson. And so it went, each group contending in ef fect that the burden of fighting inflation should be placed on somebody else. The self-interested pleading took up much time at the summit itself. Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the nation's largest power companies, asked the Government to take some action to relieve the "desperate" credit crunch in the utilities industry. A coal company executive, Ian MacGregor of Amax, Inc. urged that the U.S. ease the energy crunch...
...member of TIME'S Board of Economists, suggests that if utilities are not allowed to raise their rates faster, their financing problems could become so severe that the only way out would be to turn over their systems to state and local governments-a course that Chairman Charles Luce does not rule...
...astonishing that Mrs. Luce berates the press for reporting the facts of Richard Nixon's dismal career. Her sour-grapes ukase harks back to the Byzantine protocol that required the beheading of the messenger who bore evil tidings...
...Griffith sometimes disagreed with superiors and colleagues when he thought their judgment on particular stories was skewed by political loyalties. ("A good journalist is an unreliable ally to any cause he believes in, as his friends in public life soon learn.") His relationship with TIME'S founder, Henry Luce, was warm, close and difficult. "He wanted to prevail," Griffith recalls, "but respected independence, disliked trimmers and was bored by those whose opinions suspiciously echoed his ... He was something like a tennis player who wants a victory, but only after a hard-fought match." Griffith had some good matches with...