Word: holbrook
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When Assistant Army Attaché James Holbrook, 41, left Moscow one day last January for a routine reconnaissance trip deep into the western Ukraine, he had no intention of partying along the way-particularly not at a bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such...
...past four years in Utah, Bell successfully ran a state university system faced with soaring costs and falling revenue by carefully cutting programs. Says Donald Holbrook, chairman of Utah's state board of regents: "Bell has been able to keep higher education in Utah away from disaster when unrealized revenues and budget cuts seemed to point us in that direction...
...going too far" and can be "disruptive." He talks of finding "middle ground" alternatives, such as redrawing boundaries to merge city and suburban school districts so that the schools are no longer lopsidedly black or white. Bell has also supported the establishment of much disputed bilingual education programs. Notes Holbrook: "Bell is an innovator and a conciliator who has been able to draw a consensus from controversial issues...
Hampered by the defection of alpine star, Kristin Hodgkins, who quit the team after it was forced into Division II for a week, only alpine captain Vera Fajtova, nordic captain Maureen Devlin, and fellow cross-country specialist Missy Holbrook put together memorable races...
Fajtova skiied to her best results of the winter, placing second in the slalom and fourth in the giant slalom. Devlin and Holbrook poled to second and fourth finishes in the cross-country event. In a bright spot for next year, Yvonne Nomizu finished in the top 30, placing in her first ever cross-country race...