Word: arthur
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...California's June 3 Republican primary for the Senate seat now held by Democrat Alan Cranston, 71. The candidates are wildly diverse, ranging from Zschau, a millionaire Silicon Valley Congressman, to Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader; from right-wing TV Commentator Bruce Herschensohn to Supply-Side Economist Arthur Laffer to indicted-then-unindicted Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler...
Among the eight stragglers is Arthur Laffer, 45, the supply-side economist whose "Laffer Curve," first sketched on a cocktail napkin, helped convince President Reagan that lower taxes would produce more Government revenue through economic growth. Laffer, a big-ticket lecturer and Pepperdine University professor, is consistently the most original and provocative in his policy proposals (place a large bounty on terrorists; allow free entry of Mexicans as European-style "guest workers"). He admits to inexperience as a campaigner but maintains ebullient good humor...
News Editor for This Issue: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Night Editors: Arthur S. Rublin '89 Jospeh F Kahn '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 James E. Schwartz '88 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Editorial Editor: J. Andrew Mendelsohn '87 John N. Ross '87 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Copy Editor: Michael D. Shin '88 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: Laura G. Alcott '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: Dahlia Martin...
...four poor and elderly black women, each living alone, have been raped and murdered. In the housing projects and neighborhoods where the murders have occurred, there is a mingled sense of danger and deja vu. "A lot of people are saying, 'Here we go again,' " says State Senator Arthur Langford, pastor of a church in the area. Fear among elderly black women is acute: some are nailing their doors shut each night; others are sleeping during the day in order to stay vigilant after dark; still others are using their Social Security checks to buy pistols...
...only be what we are, let's minimize the damage. Let's get our mock campus, our mock shantytown, our mocking concern out of Harvard Yard. Let's be respectful. Let the grass grow. Arthur K. Park...