Word: arthur
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...Great Britain is that peculiar country in Europe," Arthur Koestler once wrote, "where people drive on the left side of the road, measure in inches and yards, and hang people by the neck until dead." Hanging has indeed been a peculiarly British institution. During the 18th century, while capital punishment was being restricted elsewhere, the number of capital offenses under England's criminal law, which was commonly known as the "bloody code," increased fivefold, to more than 220. They included everything from associating with gypsies to stealing turnips...
...Brookline, Mass., Fire Department cannot rely too often on a 75-year-old musician with a 31-year-old fire engine. Still, it has taken official cognizance of the Arthur Fiedler Hook and Ladder Company. The Boston Pops conductor, a lifelong fire buff who owns several hundred fire helmets, was all ready for his first alarm after his family presented him with the venerable pump truck for his 75th birthday...
Died. General Arthur da Costa e Silva, 67, former President of Brazil, who in December 1968 ended all pretense of civilian government; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. A leader of the then-popular military coup that deposed Leftist João Goulart in 1964, Costa e Silva was elected President with army backing in 1966 and embarked on a program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke...
...consumer caution is due not only to inflation but also to growing uncertainty over the economy. Last week's figures disclosed continuing November declines in industrial production, housing starts and workers' purchasing power, distressingly combined with consumer-price increases that were running at a 6% annual rate. Arthur Burns, who will become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Feb. 2, conceded to a Senate committee that the U.S. faces a "danger" of recession. He spoke cautiously of a relaxation of the board's credit squeeze-if Congress passes a noninflationary tax bill and President Nixon...
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