Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country where titles and family count heavily in business, Weinstock is the son of an immigrant Polish tailor. He was educated at state schools instead of Eton or Harrow, graduated from the University of London rather than Oxford or Cambridge. Weinstock joined General Electric-no kin to the U.S.'s G.E.-in 1961 when G.E.C. bought out Radio & Allied Holdings, an electronics firm founded by his father...
Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...four freshmen competing, and two of them stand a good chance of winning: 4:07 miler Roy Shaw and 1:49.3 half-miler Keith Colburn. Freshman Fred Champi will probably remain in the shadow of teammate Henry Berson in the javelin. The other Crimson freshmen. Bob Galliers of Harrow. England, is unlikely to match Eli sophomore Cal Hill, a 25-foot jumper...
...bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...
...days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning of the imperial day is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial prep school solemnly modeled by its British founders after Eton and Harrow (Burgess himself served for three years as an education officer in Malaya). Bemusedly, Crabbe sees that the system is crumbling, but the snobbery is not. Malays hate Indians, who hate Chinese. Every Asian hates the British, and secretly despises himself for not being British. Crabbe, who does not think himself...