Word: townsends
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ALAN GREENSPAN, a consultant to President Nixon and president of Manhattan's Townsend-Greenspan & Co., economic advisers...
...Depression '30s, a lanky South Dakota doctor named Francis Townsend won the backing of millions of elderly Americans with his plan for $200-a-month pensions for everyone over 60. Today his scheme, which most economists once dismissed as a crackpot idea, seems almost conservative. It has been upstaged by a combination of Social Security and private pension plans that offer retirement income to workers as a matter of course. Still, the difference between plans and payoffs is often painful. Many of those who lost their jobs during last year's recession and this summer's slow...
...LYNN TOWNSEND, chairman of Chrysler Corp. "Nixon may say he has inflation and unemployment under control, but I have seen no figures to indicate that he has solved either problem. I am against wage and price controls, but we cannot let this situation go on forever. The economy has the people scared. If we do not begin to see evidence of a decrease in inflation soon, the Government will have to take drastic action." RAYMOND SAULNIER, former chairman of the CEA (1956-61). "I'm afraid that wage inflation has gone so far now that it requires much more...
...holy ordinance." Despite the escapades of its founder. King Henry VIII, the Church of England has always taken those venerable words of the wedding service literally. The Anglican stand against divorce cost the Duke of Windsor his throne and Princess Margaret her first love. Peter Townsend. The same rule holds for the Episcopal Church in the U.S., and the late Bishop James A. Pike quit the church because it refused to sanction his third marriage...
Edgar's winning time in the finals was 20.30, 0.1 seconds slower than his NCAA record time. UCLA's Barry Townsend was second...