Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speculation had been rampant that the all-time Ivy ace, presently in Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, would be lured home by the bonuses the short but slow Crimson five was offering...
...They've gone overboard," sniffs one professor. "Faculty meetings have been sounding like the old Oxford Movement meetings, everyone sitting around and telling their sins," complains another. "Well, we haven't been turning out such disastrous students. They're the leaders of American medicine...
...Indira's other ministerial switches, Swaran Singh, 59, went from the Foreign Office to Chavan's old post at Defense. His place in foreign affairs was taken by Mahomedali Currim Chagla, 66, an Oxford-educated Moslem who has served as ambassador to both the U.S. and Great Britain. Chagla's vacant spot in Education went, in turn, to Fakhruddin Ahmed, 61, whose old post as Minister for Irrigation and Power will be filled temporarily by one of his senior assistants...
Baker runs the mile and two-mile during the track season, and he holds the freshman record for the mile in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford Cambridge meet--4:12. This past season, he ran a 4:11.5 mile and a 9:05.5 two-mile...
...Corner. Pergamon is nominally London-based, but Maxwell runs his flourishing empire ($2.3 million profit on $14 million worth of sales last year) from his 19th century manor house near Oxford, which serves as the office for 400 of his 2,500 staffers. Handsome if beefy (6 ft., 230 lbs.), Maxwell lives in "one small corner" of Headington Hill Hall with his French-born wife and eight children, devotes mornings to his business, afternoons and evenings to Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make...