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Soviet Union,
58
,
79
,
137
,
153
,
169
,
273

 

United States,
78
,
115

 

computers,
4
,
26
,
39
,
49

51
,
77
,
91

92
,
128
,
223
,
278
,
281

 

Congregational Church,
86

 

Connally, John,
124
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
139

 

Consumer Price Index,
156

 

Consumer Product Safety Commission,
116

 

Cornell University,
180

 

Willard Straight Hall,
111

 

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE),
252

53
,
255

 

Cost of Living Council,
126

 

Council of Economic Advisers,
5
,
114

54
,
158
,
160

63
,
165
,
166

67
,
173
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
187
,
203
,
216
,
217
,
221
,
222
,
226

 

Economic Report of the President
,
122
,
144

45
,
149
,
164
,
170

72

 

Council on Foreign Relations,
186
,
226

 

Council on International Economic Policy,
123
,
187

 

Count Palmyra's Book of Verses
,
83

 

Courant, Paul,
118

 

Cox, Archibald,
158
,
168
,
198

 

cummings, e.e.,
69

 

 

 

Dam, Ken,
203

 

Dan, Klara,
23

 

Davignon, Etienne,
141

 

Dean, John,
157
,
158
,
159

 

Deloitte and Touche,
197

 

Der Rosenkavalier
,
72

 

Detroit, MI,
110
,
216
,
221
,
223
,
230
,
235
,
241
,
242
,
243

45
,
249
,
251
,
256
,
272

 

youth,
270

 

Detroit Athletic Club,
269

 

Detroit News
,
133

 

Dingell, John,
151
,
237

 

Dodd, Harold,
88
,
94

 

Dodge, William de Leftwich,
73

 

Dole, Bob,
116

 

Downie, David,
277
,
278

 

children,
278
,
280
(
see also
Downie, Lindsey; Downie, William)

 

Duke University,
170

 

marriage to Laura Whitman,
170
,
275

 

parent
(see
Downie, Leonard)

 

wedding,
275

76

 

Downie, Laura Whitman.
See
Whitman, Laura

 

Downie, Leonard,
170

 

Downie, Lindsey,
278

 

Downie, William,
278

 

Duke University,
170

 

Duquesne Club,
112
,
186

87

 

Duquesne University Law School,
187

 

Dyson, Freeman,
49

 

 

 

Eads, George,
249

 

Earhart Foundation,
97

 

Eckart, Carl,
107

 

“Economic Growth in Modern Industrial Societies: USSR and USA,”
272

 

Economic Planning Agency (EPA),
151

 

Economic Stabilization Program,
144
,
149

 

The Economist
,
166

 

Educational Testing Service (ETS),
90
,
93

94

 

Ehrlichman, John,
156

59

 

Eidgennoissische Technische Hochschule (ETH),
8

 

Einstein, Albert,
16
,
18

19
,
60
,
95
,
131

 

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
78
,
115

 

elections,
68

 

presented von Neumann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
91

 

Eisenhower Executive Office Building,
114

 

Electronic Data Systems (EDS),
229
,
239

40

 

Energy Conversion Devices,
270

 

English Channel,
38

 

Enlai, Zhou,
137

 

Enron,
179
,
184
,
196

 

Environmental Defense Fund,
268

 

Environmental Protection Agency,
116

 

Ephlin, Don,
232

 

Episcopal Church,
80
,
85
,
275

 

Equal Employment Opportunity Act,
116

 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
68

 

Esch, Horst-Dieter,
238

39

 

Executive Office of the President,
114

15
,
137
,
160

 

 

 

Family Assistance Program,
116

 

FBI,
29
,
57
,
78
,
156
,
265

 

Federal Reserve Board,
98
,
142
,
175
,
177

 

Fellner, William,
166

67

 

Fisher, Jody,
67

 

Fitzpatrick, Jim,
264
,
269

70

 

Flanigan, Peter,
187

 

Flexner, Abraham,
17

 

Flint, MI,
250
,
256

 

Forbes
,
250

 

Forbes, Malcolm,
250

 

Forbes College,
211

 

Ford, Gerald,
176

 

economy,
174

75
,
177

 

inauguration,
169

 

pardon of Richard Nixon,
169

 

Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976,
290n23

 

transition from Nixon,
168

 

Ford, Henry, II,
233

 

Ford, Vince,
1

 

Ford Foundation,
186

 

Ford Motor Company,
216
,
232
,
278

 

earnings,
257

 

fuel efficiency,
248
,
252

 

UAW,
233
,
235

 

Fortune
,
25
,
221

 

France,
19
,
74
,
82

 

See also
Vichy France

 

Frick Museum,
41

 

Friedan, Betty

 

The Feminine Mystique
,
110

 

Friedman, Milton,
173

74

 

Friedrich, Carl,
68

 

Frosch, Bob,
229

 

Fry, Varian,
99

 

 

 

game theory

 

McDonald,
24

 

von Neumann,
4
,
12
,
23
,
24

25
,
26
,
38
,
223

 

Gamow, George,
43

44

 

One, Two, Three, Infinity
,
43

 

Ganz, Bob,
64
,
86

 

gender bias,
67
,
135

36
,
142
,
145
,
180

 

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),
141

 

General Motors Corporation (GM),
192
,
205
,
215

21

 

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) testimony,
252

53
,
255

 

Corporate Community Transition Team (CCTT),
255

56

 

Corporate Strategic Planning Group,
231

 

decline,
220
,
252
,
270

 

European Advisory Council,
231
,
262

 

fuel efficiency,
227
,
236
,
248
,
252

53
,
263

 

Group of
18
,
259
,
260
,
263

 

monopoly Senate hearings,
230

 

Public Policy Committee,
253
,
254

 

purchasing of EDS,
229
,
239

40

 

purchasing of Hughes Aircraft Company,
229
,
240

 

Technical Center,
258

 

trade policy,
233

36

 

Whitman as senior executive,
5
,
94
,
198
,
215

16
,
221

69

 

Geneva Convention,
38

 

Georgetown, Washington, DC,
141

 

German Mathematical Society,
26

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