Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel's two other main scenes-each of them powerful enough to drive an 800-page novel of its own. The first is of a consuming and endearing love affair involving three Blanford characters (who are also written about disapprovingly by Sutcliffe). One of them is Bruce Drexel, an English doctor who has spent his life in the diplomatic service. The others are Piers de Nogaret, a French diplomat whose career paralleled that of Bruce, and Piers' fey sister Sylvie...
...Radcliffe eight won the nationals last year and every one of its races this year. A team like that has few friends away from home. In fact, all of Radcliffe's best enemies got together--women rowers from Princeton, Connecticut College, UMass, Barnard and Drexel--with three women from Vesper Boat Club to beat Radcliffe, which they...
...woman are disadvantages enough on Wall Street, but Laura Sloate has a third handicap: she has been blind since she was six years old. Even so, after a mere five years in the securities business, she grossed more than $100,000 in 1973 as a research analyst with Drexel Burnham, a major securities house. Last week she opened her own securities firm with two associates and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Convention. New York Rabbi Balfour Brickner explains: "People are desperately looking for something to cling to when all other models and molds have been shattered." Still others seek relief in the occult. "Magic and the occult can explain the unanswerable and give the person a sense of control," says Drexel Institute Sociologist Barbara Hornum...
Warmer and Warmer. What would happen if man ever interfered drastically with this process? Meteorologist Francis K. Davis, who is dean of Drexel University's College of Science in Philadelphia, warns of some frightening consequences. Unable to shake off their heat, he says, the tropics might become warmer and warmer. Simultaneously, the polar regions would slowly become colder. Eventually, both areas would expand, relentlessly shrinking the thickly populated temperate zones between them...