Word: arthur
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More storms may be on the way, moving toward the state from out over the Pacific. "By coming straight across the ocean," explains Arthur Lezzard, chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, "the storms are picking up a lot of moisture, and they are hitting California broadside. The pattern should continue for another month...
...those who refused was Arthur Robbins, a migrant farm laborer who applied for general assistance last fall. After being told to go to Bannon Street instead, he filed a lawsuit with the aid of two legal-services groups, charging that the new policy discriminates against single citizens and violates the constitutional rights to privacy and freedom to travel. "It's a jail," says Robbins. "You can't live like you want to live. You can't watch TV all night if you want...
...Arthur Koestler...
Moral indignation did and still does affect me in a direct physical manner," he once confessed. "I can feel, during an attack, the infusion of adrena line into the bloodstream, the craving of the muscles for violent action." For most of this century, Arthur Koestler lived by those words. Last week at his home in London, he died by them at the age of 77. The "rootless cosmopolitan," as he styled himself, had been an ardent supporter of "autoeuthanasia," and when the suffering of old age and disease grew in supportable, he reportedly took a lethal dose of drugs...
Since its inception in 1975, the Learning From Performers series has sponsored visits to Harvard by such notables as actor Robert Redford, playwright Arthur Miller and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich...