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...issues growing so pregnant demanded a press conference, so the President held one. The Business Council, meeting up the street at the Mayflower Hotel and stuffed with such luminaries as Du Font's Irving Shapiro and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, required equal wattage from the White House. After a long, tough day, Carter took the podium at nearly 9 p.m. with a smile and a confession: "Your own influence at times might be even underestimated by you." He talked and answered questions for nearly an hour, a worthwhile effort, as he calculated it, for his anti-inflation...
...real growth next year of about 3%-not great but far above recession levels. The business leaders were also encouraged by the voter uprising against Government spending. Said Benjamin Biaggini, chairman of the Southern Pacific Co.: "Proposition 13 is the greatest thing since ice cream." Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro exulted that "the public is again captain of the ship. For the first time we're in a posture to get a good economic policy because the public is demanding...
Laura Weissman's defeat of number two Crimson singles player, sophomore Martha Roberts, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, made possible what Jumbo coach Richard Shapiro called "probably the biggest win ever for womens' tennis at Tufts...
...Pound was one of the magazine's first contributors. Within a few years (and a few pages) a lot of poets are sounding like Pound. The muse seems hardly to notice World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...
...President holds many unpublicized conversations with such fellows as Du Pont's Irving Shapiro, General Motors' Thomas Murphy and A T &T's John deButts. Very often, he seeks the advice of a tall, spare British immigrant who is emerging as one of the three or four most influential spokesmen of American business, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...