Word: robert
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...lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...
Another Alumnus. Angola Prison remains Oster's favorite folk source, and Robert Pete Williams, 42, his favorite singer. A lifer for shooting and killing a man, Williams has, in Oster's view, the "tremendous drive and anguish" that characterized the fabled Lead Belly, another Angola alumnus. Williams recently improvised his own prisoner's blues...
...remove the 4¼% ceiling on long-term (over five years) bonds. Since June, the Government has financed nearly $16 billion in the short-term market, ballooned interest rates, dried up much of the normally available money supply. The rush for the new issue proved that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson was on the right track when he asked for removal of the ceiling so that he could price bonds higher to lure in new purchasers...
When the finance ministers and central bankers of 68 nations gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, they got a stern if fatherly lecture from U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Anderson underscored what the delegates already knew: the U.S. is suffering from a deficit in its balance of payments that is causing an outflow of gold from the U.S., steadily raising the amount of U.S. gold earmarked for European nations. The time has come, said Anderson, for the rest of the world to give a helping hand...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...