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...Economic Research, Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, James McKie of the University of Texas and Joseph Pechman and Charles Schultze of the Brookings Institution.) Two of the board's distinguished alumni are currently high officials in the Reagan Administration: Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (the fifth board member to serve in that position), and Beryl Sprinkel, Under Secretary of the Treasury...
...Administration may propose; politically inflammatory and perhaps unachievable slashes in social spending; or smaller cuts in social spending coupled with significant cuts in defense spending. Endorsing Stockman were the remaining two-thirds of the economic troika, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Murray Weidenbaum. Said a high Treasury official later: "There's not a lot of money left [to cut] anywhere in the domestic programs...
...promises, contracts and oaths are the acts of will and intelligence and anticipation that make a society coherent, that hold it together. If they cannot be trusted, then the whole structure begins to wobble. If the air-traffic controllers do not care to recite Frost, they might consider William Murray, Britain's Solicitor General in the 18th century: "No country can subsist a twelvemonth where an oath is not thought binding, for the want of it must necessarily dissolve society." -By Lance Morrow
...Oliphant and Washington Post Writer Judy Bachrach, added a second op-ed page and started a morning edition. National and international coverage -long a weak point-were bolstered with the worldwide resources of the Time-Life News Service. Five new community editions broadened the metropolitan coverage. Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis. The paper won two Pulitzer Prizes (for editorials in 1979 and criticism in 1981) and numerous other awards. Said Henry Grunwald, Time Inc. editor in chief...
...their car radios or read it in a black-bordered announcement on the Star's front page. Said Sports Columnist Morris Siegel, 61, whose 19th anniversary with the paper coincides with its closing: "For once we beat the Post on the big story-damn it to hell." Editor Murray Gart (who had observed earlier: "I'm as intensely proud of the staff of the Star as any editor can be") presided over a wake. Staffers sipped champagne while checking the cluttered newsroom bulletin board for job openings at other papers. Late in the afternoon, a message from Katharine...