Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oddest and most unlikely people, received her sympathetic and undivided attention. Nevertheless, in Oxford she did begin to meet 'interesting people' in large numbers for the first time. And the Oxford generation with which her arrival coincided was by any standards an extraordinary one. Through David Cecil, she met Maurice Bowra, who, then in his mid-twenties-he was a year older than Elizabeth-was fellow and lecturer in classics at Wadham. (He became Warden in 1938). Bowra was already a celebrated talent-spotter and host; among those who were just finishing their undergraduate careers...
...specifically the U.M.W., play an inordinate role in the lives of 17's members and their families. Through the union comes just about the only work around. Its influence is as pervasive as the coal dust that is everywhere. "There is nothing more sacred than the union," says Cecil Roberts, 17's vice president...
WHICH WAY IS UP? Directed by Michael Schultz Screenplay by Carl Gottlieb and Cecil Brown...
Hunting down photographers for a new ad campaign, Designer Bill Blass figured, why not the best? So he persuaded Sir Cecil Beaton, 73, to end his three-year retirement. Last week Britain's grand old man of photography dusted off his cameras to shoot two models decked out in creations Blass calls "very romantic, à la Moulin Rouge." Highly positive about his negatives, Beaton says: "I shall continue to do a lot more. This was just the beginning." What made him agree to the project? "They were two very pretty dresses and two very pretty girls...
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus had a more convenient audience, a conference of coal producers in Louisville, Ky., to argue that Carter's energy program envisions "coal as America's ace in the hole that will win us the energy game in the years immediately ahead." Since some 16% of U.S. petroleum fuel is used in farming, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is having no problem working plugs into upcoming speeches to rural audiences. One of his suggestions: the use of solar power to heat hen houses. Vice President Walter Mondale joined the parade with a pitch...