Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gomez, who will be assisted by fellow-mediator James Arthur, declined to comment on his role in the talks or on possible success of the negotiations. He said further meetings will be called if necessary...
...Three wouldn't be any leasing if you knew what was going on in Boston--cabbies fighting each other and all," Arthur Santoro, a Cambridge cabbie, said...
...handful of witnesses before the committee were divided. Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, a leading liberal economist from M.I.T., argued that a budget-balancing amendment would be "suicidal [because] economics is so inexact a science and the future is so unpredictable." Conservative Economist Arthur Burns, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, counseled Congress to enact a law requiring a balanced budget "and then, if it works well, take the constitutional route." Another conservative, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, "with great reluctance" conceded that some form of amendment is "the only way in which...
...through baptism, devout Mormons check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely...
What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs Élysées programmed by the maestro himself. Age and approaching blindness apart, Rubinstein was well up to the celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with...