Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...views do not differ widely from Callaghan's. He is a firm backer of Britain's entry into the Common Market, favors some relaxation of government controls and greater tax incentives for industry. The son of a coal miner who was a Labor M.P., he went to Oxford not on a scholarship but on his father's earnings...
...government, headed by Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, has moved its headquarters south to the dreary provincial town of Aba. Ojukwu's agents in Lisbon have bought millions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition, which reach the rebels at night via the Portuguese island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. Biafran students recently organized noisy pro-secessionist demonstrations at the United Nations in New York and in downtown London. Biafra's lone television station continued to end its program day each evening with a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome...
...From Oxford to Oxford. The chain began in 1864, when John Lewis, a buyer of silk and dress materials, opened a shop in London's Oxford Street. Legend has it that his son Spedan, while checking the books one day, found the family was earning more than the entire roster of employees. He devised a profit-sharing scheme, and in 1929 started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each...
...pioneering ideas was "learnership," a plan to recruit university graduates for executive training. Says the official company history: "Mr. John Lewis objected to these elegant imports almost as strongly as he objected to young women with red hair, and it became necessary when he made his periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard Miller, 63, started...
Moldy Stones. The obvious retort to Morris' life and vision is to say "Go found a monastery." This, in fact, is just what Morris first tried to do. He was just 21, an Oxford undergraduate who had inherited the then fat income of ?900 a year from his speculator father, and had acquired an enthusiasm for medieval art. In college, he became friends with "Ned" Burne-Jones; together they doted on every moldy pre-Renaissance stone in the place and, for a while, considered following the celebrated Catholic convert John Henry Newman. They and their friends called themselves...