Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first break in the case came when a West Palm Beach boat dealer reported that a man calling himself Arthur Horowitz had bought a 16-foot outboard, paying for it with $2,300 in $20 bills that he carried in a brown paper bag. Horowitz was, in fact, Krist, 23, the organizer of the Mackle kidnaping. Serial numbers proved that the money was part of the ransom raised by the girl's father, Millionaire Builder Robert Mackle...
After retiring two years ago as political columnist for the New York Times, Arthur Krock, 82, found himself, well-not quite the center of attention as before. Then, while recovering from an ulcer attack last winter, he began to rap out a volume about his experiences on the Washington scene. Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line quickly became a bestseller. "Suddenly, I'm a celebrity again," says Krock happily. He can hardly keep up with all the speeches and TV appearances that he's been offered. What's more, he says, "I am thinking of doing...
...resources or the sophistication to invest in property or paper with a rising value to offset price increases. Clearly, one of Richard Nixon's first priorities must be to slow the inflation without starting a recession, whose first victims would also be Amer ica's poor. Economist Arthur Burns, one of Nixon's most influential advisers, warns: "If inflation continues, an economic bust may become unavoidable...
...some mildly deflationary measures because unemployment is so low. Encouragingly, economists of the Johnson Administration believe that the wage-price spiral eventually can be restrained by permitting unemployment to climb back to a politically acceptable rate of about 4%, and letting it hover there for a while. But, warns Arthur Okun, the outgoing chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "If ever there is going to be a year of bliss for the American economy, it will...
...Salinas, Calif. The region figures in his novels and stories, including East of Eden, Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men. The son of a miller and a Salinas Valley schoolteacher, he played basketball as a youth and read such works as Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Bible-tastes that accounted perhaps for his allegorical tendencies. He entered Stanford in 1920, but left after five years of intermittent attendance and no degree. In New York, he worked briefly for the American and was fired because he seemed incapable of recording facts...