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...been something of a no-account backwater in the Washington bureaucracy. Its role is limited by law to watching the wage and price activities of industry and the spending programs of Government. When either area shows signs of adding to inflation, COWPS can do little more than send a memo to the White House and hope that someone will read it. Under Bosworth, the council's formal powers remain negligible but the new director has infused COWPS with a sense of urgency it never had before...
That was the burden of a 15-page memo that Bosworth sent around to top Administration officials last month, outlining a number of concrete steps the White House could take to get its own affairs in order. The best evidence of Bosworth's rising influence is that nearly all his suggestions now appear in the Cabinet-level decision paper on anti-inflation policy that is sitting on the President's desk. Says a White House aide: "Within the Administration his talents are well recognized. It's outside that he has problems. The presidents of these big corporations...
...Jimmy Carter set out aboard Air Force One for Caracas last week, aides passed out a two-page memo to the 170 reporters who accompanied him aboard two chartered planes. Entitled "Health Advisory for Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes...
...squelch attempts by their underlings to pick fights between the State Department and the National Security Council. The two men have roughly equal access to the President: Brzezinski briefs him early every morning, while Vance's last official act of the day is usually to prepare a confidential memo on late developments for Carter's bedtime reading. But Vance and Brzezinski have had their differences on matters of policy, notably on the question of how the U.S. should deal with the Soviet Union. They still do differ, reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, perhaps now more than ever...
...always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Too many readers have confused light and facts. For example, in Moveable Feast, Hemingway gives the impression that Fitzgerald's literary advice was worthless, although a ten-page memo from Scott to Ernest about changes in The Sun Also Rises indicates that Fitzgerald was an excellent editor whose suggestions were taken...