Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Steel Corporation, a nationalized giant, last week opened for business after a long and turbulent incubation period. Named to head it was a chap about whom his government boss, Minister of Power Richard Marsh, exulted: "He's first-rate. He's got enormous intelligence, breadth, which enables him to get on with unions and everybody else. He's very dynamic, and he works long hours...
Learning about Steel. It took some asking-three months of what Minister Marsh described as "chasing and persuading"-to land him in the job. The quest began after it became obvious that nothing could stop Labor's comfortable parliamentary majority from acting at last on a basic commitment to nationalize steel. Convinced that the bill is broad enough to permit free action, Lord Melchett finally agreed to serve. A week later he quit his bank, Hill Samuel & Co., Ltd. and was hard at work learning about steel. Said he: "The job now is for capable people-Tory or anything...
...American history. DuBois was the first Negro to receive a Harvard Ph.D. (in 1895), and his doctoral dissertation had the honor of being published as the first volume in the famous Harvard University Historical Series. Peggy Strong did the dignified portrait of Dr. Howard Thurman, now Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel at Boston University...
...some 150 New York City birders, the search centered on Long Island's Jamaica Bay, where the stealthier spotters bellied through the wet marsh grass as if sneaking up on a machine-gun nest. Though they found a number of rare birds, they were disappointed at total counts, which were as small as 100 species. And in Illinois, 50 members of the Champaign County Audubon Society slogged through mud and rain, uphill and down, for views of herons and chimney swifts, wood ducks and Blackburnian warblers-and a day's total...
...here again the committee may run into faculty opposition. Marsh H. Mc.Call Jr. '60, Instructor in Classics and head tutor, said he is "mildly against" the proposal because in effect it makes all students in the department have a double major. "And some students taking just one language either are not as good as those in Classics or want to pursue other interests," he said...