Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Mister Sam's good side is to support Johnson for President. But for New York's Representative Victor Anfuso, backing Johnson presented difficulties : Anfuso is a liberal from Brooklyn, where Middle-Road Southerner Johnson's name is less than a liberal byword. Anfuso solved his problem in a speech in the House urging Johnson toward "greater service on behalf of our nation"-and proceeding to credit Johnson with "placing on the statute books most of the great liberal legislation sponsored by the Roosevelt Administration...
...press was equally interested-and equally confused. He landed in the infirmary with eye trouble (said Paris-Presse), with nervous trouble (said Le Figaro), with knee trouble (said he). Brigitte herself wrote a letter to Figaro deploring the "bad taste" with which it handled her husband's problem, closing her letter with "Je vous méprise [I despise you]." She changed obstetricians after the first one complained that the press would interfere with his work. One camera-laden photographer was surprised on her roof...
...play seemed to be a sort of indirect, 1960 temperance lecture linking the arms of Carry Nation and Sigmund Freud, 41-year-old Arthur William Matthew Carney was a good man to give it. An ex-alcoholic, he has solved the problem himself...
...assumption, says Professor Charles L. Schultze of Indiana University, is a mistake, and is one reason why the U.S. knows so little about inflation; economists do not study it closely enough. In a report issued last week by the Committee for Economic Development, Economist Schultze goes after the inflation problem industry by industry with prices, cost and output data for each. His conclusion: sharp inflationary pressures in only a few industries were responsible for most of the inflation in the U.S. economy during the 1947-57 period...
...study goes on to explore another economic problem of the 1947-57 period: steadily rising prices even during recession when dropping demand should cut prices. Economist Schultze does not explain it in the usual terms of a wage push by hourly workers. Instead he cites businessmen themselves: in expectation of growing long-term demand, they loaded on new plants and machines, more nonproductive salaried engineers and managers, all heavy overhead items of fixed cost. When recession came, the businessmen were stuck; they could lay off hourly workers, but they still had to pay their fixed costs for plants and highly...