Word: geoffrey
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Many researchers at Harvard are interested in doing research in these potentially hazardous areas. Geoffrey P. P. Pollitt, director of the Biological Laboratories, said yesterday...
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the selection of Reginald Maudling, 57, as shadow Foreign Secretary to replace Geoffrey Rippon, a Heath loyalist. Maudling had been forced to resign as Home Secretary in 1972 amid accusations of questionable business judgment.* Mrs. Thatcher obviously thought it worth the risk to bring back Maud-ling, a Tory heavyweight who negotiated for Britain's entry into the European Free Trade Area during the late 1950s and who narrowly lost the party leadership to Heath ten years ago. As Mrs. Thatcher explained, "It seemed to me quite absurd to have that great reservoir...
...cent gasoline and 30 per cent methynol could eliminate American dependence on foreign oil supplies. But the oil industry claims that adding methynol to gasoline reduces mileage and acceleration, causes corrosion, and would require the modification of automobile engines. The Federal Energy Office has backed these contentions, but Dr. Geoffrey Frantachy, who is participating in California methynol feasibility studies, observed that. "The oil company's market would be cut by 15 to 30 per cent; they control much of the energy industry, but not methynol, and they'll suppress it whenever they can regardless of the national interest...
...other candidates are: James Prior, 47, a liberal Tory who is shadow Secretary of Employment; John Peyton, 56, a traditional, partisan Tory who is shadow leader of the House; and Sir Geoffrey Howe, 50, a liberal opposition spokesman on social affairs. Of these three, only Prior is considered a serious contender, but all of them could siphon off support from Mrs. Thatcher...
Costuming witches good and bad, peckish crows, a field "mice squad" and the dwarfish Munchkins, Geoffrey Holder displays a breathtaking flamboyance of design and color. This wickedly amusing show is a sight for glad eyes, and parents who take young children along should be forewarned that they may have trouble ungluing them from their seats when the final curtain falls...