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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form or another taken its own look at the U.S. economy in the year just ending and in the year ahead. This week's cover story concentrates on the economy's two main worries: inflation and the possibility of recession. As we followed business news through 1969, it became clear that more and more economists were paying closer attention to the ideas of University of Chicago Professor Milton Friedman, who stresses the importance of money supply as the chief tool in fighting inflation and recession. Hence our year-end review features Dr. Friedman on the cover...
...televised attacks on the news media, Vice President Spiro Agnew urged readers and viewers to join him in commenting on the performance of the nation's newspapers and television stations. Thousands accepted his invitation, and the result has been one of the greatest outpourings of mail in American journalistic history. The three major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, have received more than 130,000 letters, telephone calls and telegrams, most of them supporting Agnew. Several newspapers report a greater volume of critical mail than at any time since the McCarthy...
Many of the letters are expectedly heavy with vitriol. Some show an irrational readiness to blame the messenger for the message and hold the news media responsible for the social ills that they report. A significant number reflect a disturbing increase in overt antiSemitism. NBC said last week that it had received more than 500 anti-Jewish letters; the New York Times reported a dozen such letters, more than it has received on any issue since the Arab-Israeli...
...Claverly Hall and Wayland, Mitchell S. Fishman '694 of Leverett House and Hicksville, N. Y., Arthur H. Lubow '73 of Straus Hall and New York City. David E. Sellinger '72 of Quincy House and Newton Centre, and John A. Simop '72 of Dunster House and Chicago to the News Board: Lynn M. Darling '72 of Cabot Hall and Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey S. Golden '72 of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Cal., James M. Lewis '70-3 of Eliot House and Alexandria. Va., and Jerry Nepom '72 of Leverett House and Portland, Ore. to the Editorial Board...
...NEWS ANALYSIS...