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Last summer, after an eight year long legal battle, a federal appeals court decided that despite a 75 year time lapse, offending landowners would either have to sell their land or do without federal water. In August, Secretary of State Cecil Andrus promptly issued guidelines for the sale of excess lands. Thousands of people turned in their names to a lottery for the newly created farms. And as late as November, Andrus was pressing Congress not to postpone enforcement...
...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...