Word: kenneth
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When Dominique's, a French restaurant in Washington, advertised fresh Pennsylvania rattlesnake sauteed in wine for $9.25, Interior Department Herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. whipped off a letter to the beanery urging that the reptile be spared. Pennsylvania's scarce timber rattlesnake is rapidly approaching extinction, he warned. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus got wind of the letter and promptly fired Dodd, mainly for sending a personal protest on official Government stationery...
...guest list read like a Who's Who of Camelot, with such notables as former speaker of the House John D. McCormack; John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; and former secretary of defense Robert W. McNamara conspicuous in the crowd...
European Economic Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, who reported foreign reaction to the U.S. monetary moves, studied economics at Harvard (Class of '56) under John Kenneth Galbraith. "After breaking his leg in a skiing accident," says Ungeheuer, "Galbraith regaled his students with an unsentimental view of human fallibility, reminding them that man's greed and short memory make monetary history eminently repeatable." Such lessons, notes Ungeheuer, "blessed us with that indispensable tool of economic journalism: magnificent hindsight." Last year, however, when reporting on the coming gold rush for TIME, Ungeheuer demonstrated the much rarer gift of economic foresight, predicting...
...soared 40 points. In recent years, however, the stock market has had the blahs, reflecting national uncertainty about the future. This summer the Dow Jones industrial average had already declined 50% from its peak of 1051 in 1973, when adjusted for inflation. Concludes Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Great Crash, a study of the 1929 debacle: "It would be hard to find any buildup of speculative hubris that would make us as vulnerable as we were...
...summer fishing camp on a lake in New York's Adirondacks. MacDonald's wife, Dorothy Prentiss, is an artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald is a graduate of Syracuse University, the Harvard School of Business Administration and the OSS in World...