Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technicians who brought it about. It is also possible to see in this endeavor the crucial gifts for organization and cooperation that alone will make survival in the post-industrial age feasible. It is possible to look at the moon flight and be dismayed at the crass expenditure of money, sweat and time, the sheer materialist effort, the ultimate triumph of gadgetry, the unabashed hubris of technique. But it is also possible to see in it the genius that is providing the abundance to end poverty, and the order and precision that may yet bring peace -or at least bring...
...dealer reported that a man calling himself Arthur Horowitz had bought a 16-foot outboard, paying for it with $2,300 in $20 bills that he carried in a brown paper bag. Horowitz was, in fact, Krist, 23, the organizer of the Mackle kidnaping. Serial numbers proved that the money was part of the ransom raised by the girl's father, Millionaire Builder Robert Mackle...
...Oakland policemen last April. But Cleaver, who disappeared in late November when his parole was revoked, failed to show up. That left his wife and five friends holding a verv empty bag. They have guaranteed Cleaver's $50,000 bail, and unless he emerges within six months, the money will be forfeited. As the FBI continued its search for Cleaver, the Internal Revenue Service entered the act. The IRS filed a $59,715.12 lien against him for unpaid taxes on royalties from his book, Soul on Ice, and lecture fees...
...India for two years on a fellowship, then came home to work in Cambridge, Mass., for a group encouraging American students to attend Communist youth festivals abroad. It was revealed as a CIA-supported operation in 1967, but Gloria says, "I was happy to use the Establishment's money against the Establishment...
...sane men endure such a thankless job as officiating? It is not the money, they say, but the thrill of being in the game. Says N.F.L. Referee Bernie Ulman, a sporting-goods salesman who, like many pro officials, is a former college-football player: "It's the one good way of staying with football after you're too old to play...