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...What was the collective nickname for the group of showbiz friends in the 1950s and 60s, who included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra?...
...His current WhatsApp status, seen only by those who have his phone number, is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...
...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for “jobs and freedom”....
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...It reminds me of the warning words of Arthur Schlesinger Jr, then a personal assistant to the US president, who wrote of the emerging likelihood of “a radically new production technology, involving total...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...US presidents have form in pressing central bank chiefs to hold down rates — George H W Bush and Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker, Lyndon Johnson and William McChesney Martin....
...In his prophetic book The Cycles of American History, Arthur Schlesinger Jr reviewed the American experience and also looked forward into the future from the perspective of the Reagan administration era...
...B&H, 420 9th Ave, 10001 (bhphotovideo.com)....
...President Richard Nixon blamed his 1960 election defeat on then-chair William McChesney Martin Jr’s tight monetary policy, and later leaned heavily — and successfully — on Mr Burns to keep interest rates...
...The following year, in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr would be assassinated by a white man, and those cities would erupt again....
...One of Mr Trump’s warm-up speakers was Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman, who opposes the Martin Luther King Jr holiday for state workers....
...The aircraft’s sleek design and seemingly impossible speeds would not seem out of place in an Arthur C Clarke novel or, at a cruder level, an episode of Thunderbirds....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...The names Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop don’t come up too often these days but the Rat Pack’s fourth wall-vaulting onstage explorations of the destructive potential of the male...
...… Capital in the Twenty-First Century , by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard, RRP£29.95/ Belknap Press, RRP$39.95 This was the blockbuster success of 2014 and was named the Financial...
...Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 We get the banking systems we deserve...
...Luther King Jr....
...He was born Arthur Ward in Birmingham and I particularly like the story of his wife consulting a Ouija board on the best way for him to make a living. The answer came back C-H-I-N-A-M-A-N....
...But as a treatise on the conflicts of interest pervading the financial services sector, the entire book remains as relevant now as when Fred Schwed Jr wrote it in 1940....
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
...There was Arthur Schlesinger Jr, bowtied and bespectacled, the Ivy League historian to whom Jack had taken a special shine and brought into the White House for what history could say to the welter of oncoming...
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