Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country where titles and family count heavily in business, Weinstock is the son of an immigrant Polish tailor. He was educated at state schools instead of Eton or Harrow, graduated from the University of London rather than Oxford or Cambridge. Weinstock joined General Electric-no kin to the U.S.'s G.E.-in 1961 when G.E.C. bought out Radio & Allied Holdings, an electronics firm founded by his father...
Bernard Ashmole Professor Emeritus, Oxford University will lecture on Pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia at 4 p.m. today at the Fogg Museum...
Buckley has shown us that ideological welfare can indeed be fun. In fact, I must concede in part TIME'S point that victory and power are not all that desirable. For young conservatives, as well as for Bill Buckley, adversity is a rather blessed state. JAMES C. ROBERTS Oxford, Ohio...
Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...Suddenly people have elevated the fight of the Dow man to recruit to first amendment rights," he said. "Actually it's about akin to the right of peddlers to knock on your door. I oppose this cynicism, but I also oppose the high-faluting pomp of those who say Oxford and Cambridge wouldn't allow recruiting on campus, yet who don't want to model Harvard after those institutions in any other...