Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico in search of work. Boston Engineer Arnold Limberg once earned $20,000 a year preparing secret reports on moon-landing test procedures. After his firing, he turned in desperation to odd jobs. Limberg charges $5 an hour for yard work, $6 for painting and $7 for roofing or carpentry. "You name it, I'll do it," says...
...Challenge and response" was a catch phrase that Historian Arnold Toynbee used to explain the rise of civilizations. When Granddaughter Clare Toynbee, 21, was challenged by her bank to pay a $240 overdraft, her response was to become a weekend stripper in a Soho nightclub for $72 a session. Confronted by a reporter, she confessed ambiguously, "Oh well, I suppose I couldn't keep it under cover forever," and admitted that the family took a dim view. "At first I felt ashamed to strip completely in front of all those men," added Clare, an Oxford graduate...
There are plenty of rumors of problems at Lord & Taylor, Arnold Constable and Saks Fifth Avenue. The managements of B. Altman and Bonwit Teller recently took the unusual step of sending letters to their employees assuring them that the stores would not be closed. Meanwhile, on Madison Avenue, Abercrombie & Fitch has been plagued by the common problem of thefts and other runaway costs; the company lost nearly $1,000,000 on sales of $28 million in fiscal...
...Eugene Arnold, an M. I. T. graduate student, said he hopes to join other tenants in making a test case of today's court decision. "The rent on my two-room apartment has risen from $105 to $210 since March," Arnold said last night...
Died. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale (born Konan T. Molody), 48, convicted Soviet spy, whom the British exchanged for Businessman Greville Wynne in 1964; of an apparent heart attack in a Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s...