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...Sophomore Yvonne Grierson set an NCAA Division III record in the 100-yard butterfly last Friday. Her winning time of 56:18 broke the previous national record by more than half a second. This marked MIT's first ever national record in swimming...
...duty to say this." And in Kazem Ala's confession about his own duty, the directors recognized and fulfilled their own duty as documentarists: to provide not just a dramatic and realistic message for the community, but to help see, as the founder of the documentary movement, John Grierson, once said, "society emancipated from its confusion and bewilderment...
...cult feature on college campuses everywhere. Or at least my brother watches it, and a friend of his, and the former sports editor of The Crimson. Maybe you don't believe me. Just ask Miles Kantrowitz how many polyester jackets he's sold since Rockford started. Ask Herbert T. Grierson of Grierson Pontiac how many Firebirds he's wheeled off his lot. They know. They really appreciate how cool Rockford...
...regroupings in British industry. To many opposition Tories and business leaders, the I.R.C. smacks of "back door nationalization," under which the government could wind up with a dominant voice in the new industrial combines that it fosters. In fact, the I.R.C.'s own managing director, Merchant Banker Ronald Grierson, made no secret of his growing distaste for Wilson's interventionist economic policies, finally quit his post last October...
...I.R.C. has also worked behind the scenes on even bigger deals, including General Electric Co. Ltd.'s acquisition of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. For that, however, it received criticism as well as praise, especially from A.E.I., which resisted G.E.C.'s takeover attempts until the end. Dear Independence. Grierson's successor in the post of managing director, Charles Villiers, 54, also a merchant banker, has taken on the largely thankless task of assuaging businessmen's fears about excessive government intervention in industry, even while stepping up the I.R.C.'s activities. Insisting that the I.R.C., despite...