Word: arthur
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Annoying though this was for Thatcher, it hardly equaled the frustration of the miners' strike. For 20 weeks, Arthur Scargill, the militant president of the National Union of Mineworkers, has led a violence-scarred crusade against the government's plan to close 20 of the country's 200 pits and cut 20,000 workers from the industry payroll of 180,000. The strike has cost an estimated $2.6 billion in lost production and has contributed to the decline of the British pound (at one point this month, its value in U.S. dollars sank to an alltime...
...meeting did not start well. Walter Mondale, who had walked over from his hotel 15 minutes earlier, met his dogged challenger Gary Hart at the front door of the elegant Manhattan townhouse. The Colorado Senator, who had been up late, told Host Arthur Krim that he could use some coffee. "Your people said you'd want tea with your bacon and eggs," said Krim, a motion-picture executive. "That's the trouble with my campaign," replied Hart. "I like lots of coffee, and I don't eat eggs...
...side stood 3,300 police, armed with truncheons and riot shields. On the other was a crowd of about 6,500 striking coal miners and their supporters, attempting to blockade the Orgreave coking works near Sheffield. Among the demonstrators was Arthur Scargill, the combative president of the National Union of Mineworkers, nursing a head injury. "All I know," said Scargill, "is that these bastards rushed in and this guy hit the back of my head with a riot shield." Not so, countered South Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable Tony Clement, who said that Scargill had fallen down a grassy slope...
...papers, including Newsday, the Denver Post, the Minneapolis Star and the Atlanta Constitution. She began to be recognized in supermarkets. One day in 1967, Bombeck remembers, she was kneeling on the floor of the bathroom in Centerville, laying a piece of shag carpet around the toilet, when she heard Arthur Godfrey talking about her first book, At Wit's End, on his radio program. This lady probably lives in an apartment in New York City, Godfrey said. Bombeck wrote to him, confessing the grisly truth, and soon became a regular guest on his program...
Since John Williams, 52, took over from Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops four years ago, the number of oldsters in the audience has diminished and the youngsters increased, but one thing has not changed: the irreverent Pops musicians whoop derisively at the more cornball program choices and read and talk through rehearsals. Last week, after one of his own works was greeted by surreptitious hisses at a run-through, Williams finally decided that enough was enough. The conductor-composer, whose most recent score was for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, will turn in his Pops...