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Known to his Westwood staff as "the super chief," Murphy divides his twelve-hour day between campus work and a host of extracurricular duties, including board membership on the Ford Motor Co., the McCall Corp. and the Menninger Foundation. Art Collector Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom...
...heroine (Beryl Reid) has for years played the part of a kindly rural nurse. Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
Sister George is in a vicious swivet because her role is to be edited out of the show. Mrs. Mercy Croft (Lally Bowers), a BBC program manager, comes bearing the unmerciful news: a ten-ton truck will collide with Sister George's motor bike, and the entire country town will go into mourning at the loss of their beloved nurse...
...automakers from 20 countries last week displayed their wares at the 53rd Paris Motor Show, which is Europe's biggest, safety came second. To be sure, the U.S.-owned entries, such as General Motors' West German Opel and English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover...
Motorcycles still account for 80% of the company's sales, and their throaty purr is the sound the Shacho-san loves best. "Driving a car," says Honda, straddling one of his new motor bikes, "is like sitting in a living room. Driving a motorcycle is like controlling something almost alive...