Word: oxfords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meir is in good health and plans to serve the four-year term to which she is almost certain to be elected. Nevertheless she is grooming Deputy Premier Allon, 50, a loyal, Oxford-educated party man, as her successor. Dayan, 54, will undoubtedly fight for the job too, but Mrs. Meir considers him a maverick unsuited for the top. To broaden Allon's experience, Mrs. Meir is thinking of making him Foreign Minister, a job now held by the mellifluous Abba Eban. In turn, Eban, 54, would become Information Minister, charged with improving Israel's image...
Died. Norman Washington Manley, 76, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; of a heart attack; in Kingston. As founder of the People's National Party in 1938, then as the island's top executive from 1955 to 1962, Oxford-educated Manley played a primary role in Jamaica's rise from a stagnant British Crown colony to political independence and economic wellbeing. He was among the first and foremost organizers of a campaign to attract both tourists and industry to bolster the island's historic one-crop sugar trade. The program was so successful that today Jamaica...
Graham Pattern, for instance, still a Marxist, and fond of saying that "everything is run by the dozen men who were in my year at Oxford and Cambridge." He said this with pride. Which did not prevent him and everybody else saluting the new classlessness, which meant that some talents from the provinces or from the lower classes had been attracted to London and had been absorbed--exactly as had always happened...
...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
BRIAN PATRICK McGUIRE Graduate Student Balliol College Oxford, England...