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...thing about which there can be no debate is their creator's financial integrity. Even his opponents have conceded this. Robert A. Caro, author of a lengthy and highly critical biography entitled "The Power Broker," makes this abundantly clear. He describes Moses as "personally honest in matters of money," and notes: "For all the years of his adult life, he had been short of money...seventy-one years old. Robert Moses, the Robert Moses whom the press persisted in describing as 'independently wealthy,' was, so far as cash was concerned, all but penniless...
...Green's point is well taken. Robert Moses spent decades in the public service and remained, throughout his career, one of the most scrupulously honest figures in New York state government. I surely never meant to impugn Mr. Moses' personal integrity--all of us who have read Mr. Caro's book realize that this cannot be done. However, it is no secret that through the peak of his career Mr. Moses enjoyed the concomitant privileges of a personal fortune -- in terms of access to the state's vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that...
Defensive back Charlie Caro had a fourth-quarter interception which led to Kirkland's final touchdown. It was the eighth straight game, dating back to last year, in which Caro had at least one interception...
There were seven works commissioned for the building. Among them: a massive and rotund Henry Moore bronze at the entrance, a large Anthony Caro sculpture gesturing from a ledge in the atrium, an immense Joan Miró tapestry and Robert Motherwell's Reconciliation Elegy, the largest and possibly the last (since democracy has now been restored in Spain) of his 30-year series of Elegies for the Spanish Republic. Hovering over and animating the whole central space is a huge mobile by Alexander Calder, feathery light despite its size, and lazily responding to every air current. Smaller spaces are reserved...
...three miles to retrieve from a telephone booth Moro's final letter to his family. The oldest daughter, Maria Fida Bonini, 32. a newspaper reporter (against her father's wishes), came often from her apartment near by. The family answered Moro's notes with a published "Caro Papà " letter that said poignantly...