Word: alex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daily Mail's evidence seemed highly questionable. One item was a photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included...
...some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick foot work. Apparently, Speed's affinity for fruit is supposed to be comic, but all he ever does with the apples is eat them and the banana...
...biggest damper on the tournament was the tawdry condition of the course itself. Crimson captain Alex Vik said, "I haven't talked to one player who had anything positive to say about that place...
Paxton slipped to an 80 on Sunday, taking a triple bogey on the 15th, but Vik forged a sparkling round of 70 from the pressure packed crucible of the closing 18. "Alex showed everyone what kind of a player he is today," said Donovan, as Vik had displayed only ephemeral brilliance through most of the season...
...debt, consisting of a number of printer's bills which had arrived late and "were not processed," escaped the attention of the magazine's past management until this fall, Alex Vik '78, general manager of the Review, said yesterday...