Word: elder
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...familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little out of place. He swelters in his woolen Norfolk jacket until his friend's elder sister Marian (Julie Christie) volunteers to take him into town and buy him more suitable clothes. She is fond of the boy, but she is careful to cultivate him too. Soon he is carrying messages to her lover, a Laurentian farmer named Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), and bearing back replies...
...Died. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 82, corporation lawyer and elder brother (by 21 months) of the late President; of a stroke; in Tacoma, Wash. When Edgar publicly chided his brother for proposing an oversized budget in 1957, Ike shrugged: "Edgar has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The second of the seven Eisenhower brothers, "Big Ike," as Edgar was known, liked to recall how he and "Little Ike" would fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another" during their boyhood days in Abilene, Kans. But when 14-year-old Dwight got blood poisoning after skinning his knee...
...driving net in his garage at the age of five. This season he belted his way to a second-place finish in the Masters and third in the Jacksonville Open; currently, he is among the top 20 money winners, with 1971 earnings, so far, of $55,849. An elder in the Mormon Church, he attended Brigham Young University but quit before graduating to join the tour in 1969. "A college degree," he explains, "is not going to help you sink those two-footers...
Despite the fact that he knew most of the giants of modern art, Gerald never collected their pictures. He was in some ways very much his merchant father's son. Just as the elder Murphy introduced many appurtenances of upper-class European life to the U.S., Gerald acquainted his friends in France with such American contrivances as jazz records and waffle irons, portable bathhouses and inflatable rubber horses. Fitzgerald was so awed by Murphy's taste that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend...
...Remington Rand, Learson nonetheless chose IBM because its machines were electrical rather than mechanical. He rose to general sales manager at a crucial time. Learson still admits that parts of computer technology are "over my head," but in the early 1950s he and Tom Jr. strenuously argued, against the elder Watson's opposition, that IBM's punch-card equipment would soon be outdated by electronic computers, an innovation then dominated by Sperry-Rand's Univac. The younger guard won out, and IBM poured vast resources into its own computer designs. After the corporation introduced the 700 series...