Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suite 5600 of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, Manhattan command post for the family's worldwide enterprises, a senior staff member muses: "Win was always the most personally motivated of the boys. He was also the least assured." A younger son of a comparable dynasty in Victorian England who displayed Winthrop's early-blooming symptoms of rebelliousness and high living would have been packed off to colonize Kenya or repel the Pathans. It took more than familial pressures to part Fourth Son Winthrop from the Manhattan fleshpots and the clan's Pocantico Hills domain in suburban...
Teddibly British. For one thing, "Bajans"-as the residents are known-are pretty used to the 'idea of self-government: they have had an elected legislature since 1639 and have fully governed themselves since 1961. For another, they are likely to miss the ties to Mother England, whose ways and even appearance are duplicated on the island to a remarkable degree. Alone among the British islands of the Caribbean, Barbados has never been out of English hands since it was settled in 1627. Driving is on the left; neat hedges or stone walls mark property lines; the effective civil...
...Crusaders, "the most improved team in New England" last year, according to Crimson Coach Edo Marion, placed third in the New England intercollegiates. But Harvard beat them twice using several second-stringers, and most of the Crimson first team is returning...
Senior Tom Musliner, after a dismal season last year, may be ready to repeat the sophomore performance which placed him second in Ivy League foil standings. A fast and precise fencer, Musliner won the New England intercollegiates last year but did poorly in Ivy competition because of "the psychological disadvantage of a spectacular sophomore year," Marion said. This fall, Musliner placed second in the New England Amateur Open, where two U.S. Olympians competed...
Jean Mayer, Professor of Nutrition, and Helen Channing, a senior research assistant at the School of Public Health, published their findings Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their report was based on a study of graduates from a suburban high school, and a similar analysis of students at an unidentified Ivy League and Seven Sister College...