Word: arthur
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...giddy days of the New Frontier and after, she was known as the prankish clown of the clan, the exuberant athlete ready for any gambol, the nonstop, miniskirted supermom who exemplified all the headlong, slightly manic "vigah" of the Kennedys. Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland of nippy disposition, the wandering armadillo that broke up tea parties, the pet hawk that once...
Several Peabody tenants told Wiggins that even if Harvard is losing money on the apartments it should keep the rents down. "People simply can't afford the increases. They'll have to move," Irene Dawson, one of the meetings four organizers, said. Arthur E. Yama, another one of the four, said that it is a question of priorities and of who should make policy decisions involving the allocation of Harvard's money...
...Wiggins is a very well-intentioned man. There were certain aspects of the rent increase which seemed not to have been examined carefully enough by the University itself," Arthur A. Klein, teaching fellow in General Education, said after the meeting. Klein spoke for an economics committee which has been examining the figures since receiving them on Monday...
...Correspondence between Dean Ford and Arthur Smithies, Master of Kirkland House, concerning his ten-year "connection" with the CIA. Smithies explained in an interview Friday that he goes to Washington several times a year to give "technical criticism on straight economics research papers" prepared by the CIA on Russia, China and underdeveloped countries. "I have never concealed anything about this connection," Smithies said...
These hypotheses, which are widely accepted by behavioral scientists, are restated in a lengthy article by Arthur R. Jensen in the current issue of the Harvard Educational Review. But Jensen, 45, an educational psychologist at the University of California in Berkeley, chose to build on such postulates some less plausible ones of his own. He argues that in some ways the American black is intellectually inferior to the American white. And he suggests that the explanation lies not so much in the Negro's deprived environment as in his genes...