Word: meyers
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...striking photographs that accompany the story, Photographer Neil Leifer spent four days in basic training with a brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers...
...DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...
...Western-educated technocrats, Quraishi has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, but has had to learn about banking through on-the-job experience. A trio of early outside advisers helped him to master the mysteries of global high finance: John Meyer, onetime chairman of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust, Alfred Schaefer, once chairman of Union Bank of Switzerland, and Robert Fleming, who headed his own merchant bank in London...
Philip Roth once described himself as part Henny Youngman and part Henry James. His severest critics, however, treated him as if he were part Lenny Bruce, part Meyer Lansky. The studious, law-abiding author of Portnoy's Complaint was regarded by some to have distorted his heritage for a few laughs and committed a profitable act of cultural gangsterism. Judging from his published responses, Roth was surprised that he had caused such a fuss. One does not, after all, have to be Alfred North Whitehead to understand that the characters in Portnoy are amusing words on paper...
Photographs, too of Meg Meyer and Martha Roberts, four-year competitiors who are leaving this year with Felske. Photographs marking the team's national debut in California last year. And photographs of the combined Harvard-Yale trip to England two years ago for the first international intercollegiate cup championship ever in women's tennis...