Word: christi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a double first in modern languages and history, then was elected a fellow of Corpus Christi. A fellow student was Sydney Courtauld, only daughter of the late textile millionaire and art collector Samuel Courtauld. Dark, handsome, intensely -interested in politics, she was attracted by Rab's intelligence and drive. In 1926 they were married. His wife brought Rab wealth, entree into the famous Tory homes of Mayfair, and, eventually, a constituency-Saffron Walden in Essex County, where Courtauld had a country house in which the Butlers now live. From there, in 1929, Rab was elected to Parliament...
...BLADEN Corpus Christi, Texas Sir: . . . Why not Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi...
MARINE IST LIEUT. GEORGE H. O'BRIEN JR., 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas: "Although shot through the arm ... he proceeded to hurl hand grenades into the bunkers and, utilizing his carbine to best advantage . . . succeeded in killing at least three of the enemy...
Pattern for Progress. It is along the Gulf Coast, where Texas has had its greatest industrial growth, that the state has its major water problem. To the east of Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs...
...Corpus Christi, Texas...