Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Grossman, 56, Minister of Housing. Probably the most prolific pamphleteer alive in Britain today. Grossman, a former Oxford don, has long been the brilliant, erratic idea man of the Labor Party, was a member of the Keep Left group of party rebels that sniped at the last Labor government while it was in power. His main task: to carry through the state takeover of urban land, which Labor hopes will solve Britain's soaring land inflation...
From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
...undergraduate science center will cost about $12 million and will probably be built at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford streets, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for resources and planning, revealed yesterday...
Vassar College formally inaugurated its seventh president, Oxford-educated Alan Simpson, 52, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., following the 18-year reign of Sarah Gibson Blanding. One of his first tasks will be to take part in a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell at a Vassar dormitory. He will play the devil...
...everything. Though he cannot ride a horse, rarely packs his .38 pistol and admits to raising petunias, broken-nosed ("I got it in the amatoors") Chief U.S. Marshal James Joseph Patrick McShane, 55, has out-Earped Earp while leading his 821 men to war in Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Oxford. Never before has the nation's senior law-enforcement agency - just 175 years old - looked less like a refuge for political grifters and more like the strong right arm of the nation's 393 federal courts...