ESCAPE
Qwaint, Mary
Escape by Mary Qwaint Recently Mary sent me this truncated story informing me she is "playing with kinetic thought" (probably a big ugly guy with a scar). I do not know how Mary effects you,...
...As a result, Friedman says, massive federal programs, such as those intended to help the poor, invariably become mild to miserable failures...
...Hello, mother, I heard you calling is there something special you want, or well, what is it, what's wrong with you...
...Her Mother lay on the bed heardly breathing looking very pail...
...Karen slowly got up thinking of Nancy & how she'd been brave enough & wise enough to leave the small cyncal town...
...The handkerchief-size banner exemplifies for Friedman a great, sad truth — that good intentions often go astray because attempts to accomplish them are ill conceived...
...He is the leading exponent of the "Chicago school of economics," which holds the laissez faire line...
...Hold on Mother everything will be alright...
...It partly has a direct military application, and that part of it ought to be in the defense budget...
...With a little coaxing, Rose will pull out for visitors an out-of-focus snapshot of her husband wearing a grey sweatshirt with Adam Smith's likeness stenciled on the front...
...Hay over there," Doug the hometown basketball star yelled to Karen interrupting all line of thought "can I come over...
...The Friedmans live on the 15th floor of Dorchester Towers, 5825 S. Dorchester, near the university...
...Thirty-five years ago Rochester University president Wallis prophesized "If there is anybody in our generation who will rank among the greats of economics — the Adam Smiths — it will be Milton Friedman...
...I'm sorry but mother was ill and now if you'll excuse me mother is calling me...
...His name is constantly before the public — as author and subject of other authors, as lecturer, debater and guest on television talk shows, as international voyager whose economic jargon influences world governments...
...As Karen stood beside her mother's tomestone and looked down at the flowers, already starting to wilt she couldn't help but be a little glad, for her own sake and her mothers that she was gone...
...He opposes the economic philosophy that has held the upper hand in this country for three decades — the late John Maynard Keynes' advocacy of fiscal and monetary control by government to create employment...
...Friedman, 55, a University of Chicago professor, is the Peter Pan of world economics...
...Hi, Karen," he said rather flatly sitting down beside her, "Where have you been keeping yourself lately, Gosh I didn't think you'd miss my game friday night...
...Ed...
...Flowers For Every Occasion 304 E. 5th Ph...
...Everybody keeps talking about Nancy, the small town girl who went to the city to find her fame and fortune, big deal...
...I do not know how Mary effects you, but she makes me feel like Maxwell Perkins...
...Big Deal...
...Yeah, sure, yeah...
...I'll call the doctor...
...Small, athletic, intelligent, he has flitted over his field, plucking ideas from left and right, leaving opponents floundering...
...Friedman: Knight Of Economic Chessboard A red, white and blue banner on Milton Friedman's office wall proclaims: "Be American, Buy American (Made in Japan...
...Now she to could be a somebody, go away and start all over forget everything about the rotten gloting little town, (sic) Floral Co...
...Their apartment, furnished in Danish modern, with a Brueghel print over the fireplace, overlooks Lake Michigan and the Museum of Science and Industry, which Rose likens to the Parthenon at night...
...SPACE — TAKE THE space program...
...This little giant, who found economics as fissionable as other matter studied on the Midway, scurries around his book-walled office, alights on his old-fashioned swivel chair, rocks slowly, gestures with his arms and counts off points on his fingers until they are all used up...
...But over and beyond this I see no justification whatsoever for government spending (roughly $10 billion a year) on the — Continued on Page 11 10...
...332-7201 FRIEDMAN — Continued from Page 4 Rose, herself an economist, is the sister of Aaron Director, another well-known economist and close associate of Friedman...
...Yes, yes everybody knows and I'm tired" she thought, tired of living this way & of being so good of being beyond all doubt, 'that nice little girl who had such a terrible start in life.' Now as Karen walked into the bedroom that was her mothers she put on a bright happly smile and prayed her mother would not keep her too long...
...Yeah, come on," If I wouldn't have said yes he would have come anyway she thought to herself...
...The town where everybody knows her mom is an alcoholic and everybody knows she was concived by an affair with David the banker's brother from out of town...
Vol. 1 • May 1968 • No. 6
