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...chairman of the world's richest central bank makes only $60,663 a year; he could doubtless command at least $500,000 if he left. It is almost ironic, but the banker who moves billions could use the money. A man of limited personal means, he lives in spartan $394-a-month bachelor digs in Washington during the week. On weekends he shuttles to New York City, where his arthritic wife Barbara lives with their son James, 24, a victim of cerebral palsy. She supplements the family budget by working as a bookkeeper. Despite the personal sacrifice, many hope that...
Later that commitment took a chilling turn toward fanaticism. In May 1982 he tried to buy 1,000 Ibs. of dynamite in Hazard, Ky., a small coal-mining town 150 miles southeast of Louisville. Since this past July, he had been living in a spartan $26-a-night room at the Downtown Motel in Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According...
...days before he died, Mulcahy rented a spartan one-room cabin at the Mountain View Motel Court in the sylvan Shenandoah Valley. Last Monday he drunkenly fired a shotgun at his cabin door, and the motel owner suggested he leave. Mulcahy lugged five suitcases, three of them packed with his files on Wilson and Terpil, out to his pickup truck. The motel owner locked the door and left; Mulcahy apparently stayed. Early the next morning, after a chill night of 40° temperatures, his body was found slumped against his cabin. His pants were around his ankles. Inside the cabin...
...Israeli expert in the branch of mathematics known as complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member...
...current administration that should be on the defensive. Its overall supply-side economic policy has proved a colossal failure. Spartan monetary policy has kept interest rates high, while investors have not reacted to the tax-giveaway prod as they were supposed to. Instead, the wealthy are worried about deficits--Reagan deficits. Along with new unemployment statistics expected to show no improvement in the availability of jobs, these realities ought to give Democrats plenty to talk about on the stump this month...