Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frederick Franz, a short and spry 83, who on June 22 quietly succeeded the late Nathan Knorr to become the fourth leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses. For a century now, this most contentious of faiths has pressed upon an unwilling audience the message that mankind is nearing the End. Franz, a bachelor who has labored in the sect's headquarters since 1920, will not be surprised if he lives to see the destruction of the world's political order in the Battle of Armageddon, which will usher in Christ's 1,000-year reign...
...Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...McCarthy era, Scoundrel Time, saying that it was widely but mistakenly received as a reliable record of the times and of the playwright's "virtually unique personal heroism in the midst of almost universal cowardice." A number of other critics, including Hilton Kramer, Irving Howe and Nathan Glazer, have also taxed Hellman with a variety of obfuscations and omissions in the historical record as well as in her own political life story...
...Washington with Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze, who urged him to hold the increase to 6%. Last week U.S. Steel did so, and the rest of the industry fell into line. Several Board of Economists members nonetheless view such gentlemanly jawboning as inadequate to stop inflation. Nathan and Pechman predict that a disappointed President will eventually move to far more vigorous and public intervention in wage-price disputes...
Discontent with anti-inflation policy is only one part of the general liberal unease about Carter's economic performance. Heller, Nathan and Pechman believe that the economy could use still more stimulus to bring down unemployment faster. They note that Carter is now proposing a fiscal 1977 budget deficit of $48.7 billion-$8.5 billion less than the one projected by Gerald Ford...