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Veritas Study Provokes Amusement, Disin erest

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Nobody in the Harvard Economics Department seems to be losing sleep over the Veritas Foundation. Some amusement, but mostly disinterest describes the university's reaction to the Foundation's latest move.

A group of extremely conservative alumni, the Foundation has published a staff study" entitled Keynes at Harvard, which charges that the department is in the grip of a "Keynesian orthodoxy," and refuses to tolerate any kind of economics save its own "leftist" variety.

Members of the department were attacked for teaching Harvard students a socialist political credo" rather than social economics.

The man whom the study characterized as "the crown prince of and a "favorite of the Kremlin said he was amused by the group's charges. "I would have been very disappointed if my name were not one of those attacked," declared John Kenneth Galbralth, Paul M. Warburg Professor of economics.

Galbraith said he was curious as to that brand of economics the Veritas foundation preferred to modern economic thought.

Other members of the Economics Department expressed reactions ranging from apathy to boredom. Few thought the report worth commenting on.

Galbraith said he was curious as to that brand of economics the Veritas foundation preferred to modern economic thought.

Other members of the Economics Department expressed reactions ranging from apathy to boredom. Few thought the report worth commenting on.

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