Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Subject. A decade later, Prime Minister Wilson turned to Old Comrade Freeman to be Britain's High Commissioner (ambassador) in India, where embroilment in India's quarrels with Pakistan seemed unavoidable, but where, as a diplomatic greenhorn, Freeman often found it advisable to lie low. The New Statesman's immense prestige among Indian intellectuals boosted the personal popularity of its former editor, and Freeman's vivacious dark-haired third wife, Catherine, won praise for her relief work in famine-ravaged Bihar...
...Fernando Valley, a vast expanse of tract homes and shopping centers northwest of the city's heart. "Sam's people," as they are called, do not insist upon political heavyweights as their elected representatives. But they are strong law-and-order advocates with an especially low tolerance for official malfeasance...
Miller runs Providence-based Textron in low-key Yankee style. A model of blue-serge conservatism, he earns $181,000 a year but operates from a modest little office. His headquarters staff is lean ?only 105 people. With them, Miller keeps close watch on the spending and planning of Textron's subsidiaries...
...ordinary way-burying his hero to the neck in an anthill of character defects. What is unusual is that Waterhouse then proceeds to spread a blanket, unpack a box lunch, and invite the reader to watch the fun. William, the hero, is a 35-year-old Londoner of such low spiritual energy that he cannot be said to have anything so definite as a desire. But when he remembers to be wistful, he thinks vaguely that it would be nice if his life had more color...
Warren K. Cooper '56, director of Financial Aid, said yesterday that before the MBA Fellowship Program Began, black students from low income families looking at the $10,000 cost of the two-year MBA program, were "immediately reluctant" to make the necessary financial commitment...