The task of making the wage-price freeze workdeciding who and what is covered by it, improvising compromises, enforcing the ruleswill be one of the most complex of bureaucratic exercises. Who's Who in running the show for the Administration:
TREASURY SECRETARY JOHN CONNALLY, as head of the Cost of Living Council, has overall authority to wheedle, cajole, crack heads and otherwise employ his considerable political skills in imposing the freeze. He has moved briskly. When the Pentagon announced that certain servicemen's pay raises would go through on schedule, Connally called Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard and said: "You rescind those raises or I...
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