Word: samuelson
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...Larger Task. President-elect Kennedy's first choice to head up CEA was not Walter Heller but Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Paul Samuelson, most eminent and influential of all U.S. economists. Samuelson declined in the belief that he could have more influence on the outside, recommended Heller for the post. For the other two seats on CEA, Heller chose two university economists much like himself in age and outlook...
...Great Challenge (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). On the first of a new panel series, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Economist Paul Samuelson and Foreign Affairs Expert Henry Kissinger discuss "The World Strategy of the U.S. As a Great Power...
...last month without Kennedy receiving a bright new program from a study group of his own choosing. First came the recommendations of a committee headed by Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington for a sweeping Pentagon reorganization. Later came a free-spending economic report from M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, then big and costly proposals for aid to depressed areas, housing and education. Kennedy received all these reports with smiling thanks-and committed himself to nothing. And the five-point legislative program (including housing, medical-care, minimum-wage, depressed-areas and education bills) that he actually intended to urge upon Congress...
...successful Washington practitioner of corporate law, Fowler helped shape the antirecession economic program turned out for Jack Kennedy last fortnight by M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer suggested darkly: "It remains to be seen whether the gateway to the New Frontier will lead to a Paradise for Planners or the rocky road of hard work and self-sacrifice." In Chicago, the Tribune scanned the economic survey prepared for Kennedy by Paul Samuelson, Walter Heller and other economists, and concluded that the New Frontier might become a retreat to the wartime "regimented economy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Man, do you glimpse that New Frontier?" cried the Tribune. "It seems to have barbed wire around...