Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as culturally, Minneapolis is one of the Midwest's more progressive cities. Its civic-minded businessmen like their suits conservative and their politics enlightened. Since the 1940s, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition has produced a series of dynamic liberal mayors, including Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent, Arthur Naftalin. Thus Minneapolis seemed unlikely to succumb to the mayoral campaign of a political novice whose principal pledge was "to take the handcuffs off the police." Yet that is just what happened last week...
...height of the summer season. So they threw a splashy prenuptial bash at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel to make sure the clan got its chance to toast the prospective bride and groom. There was Joan Kennedy in a black minishift and the George Plimptons chatting with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. All told, more than 200 guests dropped in to congratulate the lovestruck couple. Said the future Mrs. Sorensen: "We thought we ought to do something for our East Coast friends...
...small control room on the Bahamian island of North Bimini, Marine Biologist Arthur Myrberg pushed a button, then stared intently at a television monitor. Within half a minute, the TV screen came alive with thrashing sharks, groupers, snappers and other large inhabitants of the deep. Myrberg's surprising underwater show had once again started on cue-as it does whenever he signals his aquatic actors...
...money around than the increased output of goods warranted. Naturally, prices went up faster than be fore. So far this year, the board has not increased the money supply at all, but its mistake of 1968 set back the campaign against inflation by about six months. With 20/20 hindsight, Arthur Okun, who was President Johnson's chief economist, concedes that "it has just been too easy to raise prices and wages. Nobody was scared of losing markets or jobs. Management knew that competitors would follow them rather than fight them. The villain of the piece was just too much...
Censorship of the press is hardly a rarity in Latin America, but Brazil's military-backed government seems more brazen about it than most. Instead of arresting, warning or otherwise punishing specific editors for printing articles that President Arthur da Costa e Silva finds offensive, the government is now flatly telling the nation's press how to handle stories in advance. Preparing for Nelson Rockefeller's scheduled visit to Brazil this week, the government ordered all editors to "collaborate in order to create a favorable climate for the stay among us of this representative of the Government...