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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still leading at the three-mile mark, the wiry Englishman gave way to teammate Doug Hardin and Yalie Frank Shorter and eventually faded to seventh as Hardin and Shorter staged a step for step struggle for the lead...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harriers Remain Unbeaten | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

...judgment, and the capacity to live with one another, the ability of the people to pick wise rulers, and of those picked to rule wisely. It is a curious quality of those who suffer least from these disabilities not fully to understand the source of their strength. An Englishman, an expert in guerrilla warfare, put it, I think brilliantly, to a Washington friend about a year ago. The visitor was asked why American efforts to impart the rudiments of orderly government seemed to have so little success in underdeveloped countries. "Elemental" was the reply. "You teach them all your techniques...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Moynihan Assesses the Role of Architecture | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

...prove the point, NCCI sent an Englishman, a Hungarian, and a colored immigrant, all equally well qualified, in search of a job. They applied for the same position. The Englishman was never turned down, the Hungarian was turned down thirteen times and the colored person was turned down 27 times...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Britain's Race Problem: Quick Rewrite of an American Tradition | 11/1/1967 | See Source »

This Fall, the wiry Englishman has established himself as one of the best runners after flashing to five consecutive victories for the undefeated Harvard Harriers...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Wiry Harrier Captain Jim Baker Finds Leading Easier as Winner | 10/26/1967 | See Source »

Love of Puttering. Throughout his career, Attlee remained as egalitarian as the Britain he hoped to build. His wife Violet often chauffeured him about in the family Hillman on his political rounds. He wore frayed clothes, smoked a little black pipe and cultivated the Englishman's love of puttering about a garden. The son of a lawyer, he attended Oxford and was a staunch Tory until he visited a London slum. The squalor turned the young lawyer into a social worker and socialist. When the Labor Party split in 1935 over the issue of pacifism, Attlee, a World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Egalitarian Example | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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