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...Britons at any one time are entitled to write O.M. after their names. Filling two vacancies left by the deaths of Historian G. M. Trevelyan and Portraitist Augustus John, Queen Elizabeth named goateed Architect Sir Basil Spence, 55, rebuilder of the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, and Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey deHavilland, 80, whose company turned out swarms of Mosquito fighter-bombers during World War II. to join the distinguished company of such men as Poet T. S. Eliot, Prime Ministers Attlee and Churchill...
...wonderful, controlled jobs are turned in by Michael Solomon and Priscilla Ellis, two of the inmater Geoffrey Fox shows some good timing as the local doctor, and Lewis B. Kaden (Dean Garth), speaks with welcome clarity and keeps the expository line of the play moving smoothly, though at times he comes on like Paul Anka (now I'm serious: look at my knit brows...
...slide or just a bump on the road. This uncertainty is compounded by the fact that some indicators are compiled weekly, some monthly, some quarterly. Thus they refer to different time periods and, to make their message even more confusing, are often subject to revision after they come out. Geoffrey Moore, of Manhattan's private and prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research-which first formulated the leading indicator system-points out that they are useful for calling the signals during the game, but are only foolproof for Monday morning quarterbacking. "An economist," says Moore, "can be pretty sure about...
...sudden and unexpected death of a senior scientist at Britain's top-secret germ-warfare laboratory cried out for explanation. The first War Office announcement only stimulated curiosity. It was possible, said a cautious official spokesman, that Geoffrey Bacon, 44, had been killed by "an accidental infection resulting from his work." A post mortem examination two days later revealed the full horror of what had happened. Researcher Bacon had been a victim of pneumonic plague, a form of the fiercely contagious Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, slaughtering millions and depopulating whole cities...
United Ranks. Macmillan reinforced his key appointments by naming eleven lively, like-minded younger Tories to second-level posts. Among them: Geoffrey Rippon, 38, an expert on European local government and Britain's housing problems, who was named to the new post of Minister of Public Building and Works; Edward du Cann, also 38, who organized a spectacularly successful investment fund in his early 30s, and now becomes economic secretary to the Treasury; Nigel Fisher, 49, one of the few Tories to denounce the government's bill restricting Commonwealth immigration, who becomes parliamentary under secretary to the Colonial...