Word: arnolds
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While a falling dollar may limit the bargains available to U.S. travelers who venture overseas, it should boost the domestic tourist industry. In Florida, which boasts attractions ranging from Disney World to Miami Beach, hoteliers and resort owners expect a hectic year. Arnold Keithlin, marketing vice president of the Sonesta Beach Hotel on Key Biscayne, met last month with European travel arrangers and came away beaming: "They were forecasting a 35%-to-45% increase in their use of tourist facilities here this summer because of the depreciation of the dollar. They are all very bullish, very optimistic...
...Arnold Aldrich, the number-two man in the shuttle program, said he rejected an objection on the morning of the January 28 liftoff by Rockwell International that ice on Pad 39B made conditions "not safe to launch...
Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...
...flight. Graham explained on TV that the flame "appears to grow and grow . . . until it finally goes to the explosion point." Thus the controllers and astronauts had only 13 seconds to discover the problem and react. But NASA officials testified that escape would have been impossible in any case. Arnold Aldrich, shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center, told the commissioners that Challenger could not have separated from the boosters and the tank until the solid-fuel rockets had completed their uncontrolled firing, about two minutes after lift-off. Any earlier separation, he said, would have thrown the shuttle into...
...City's reluctant Scrooge is Arnold Thomas, 32, who heads the local office of the Farmers Home Administration. He has the unpleasant duty, as the agent of the Federal Government's lender of last resort, to foreclose on farmers who cannot keep up their debt payments. After a two-year moratorium on foreclosures, Thomas is now sending out letters politely advising farmers on how to avoid default through loan reschedulings, reamortization, even voluntary liquidation. "It bothers me to foreclose," says Thomas. "If it didn't, you wouldn't be human. I try to leave my job at the office. Otherwise...