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...battle, and a memorial service on the battle site for the slain of all nations, including the French. This was conducted last week in a drenching rain in the presence of 1,100 stiff-lipped British soldiers standing wetly to attention. Announced Britain's ambassador in Belgium, Sir Roderick Barclay: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with the curious behavior of the English...
Asians & Costs. The challenger of the oil giants is Roderick W. Miller, 53, a coal tycoon who is motivated equally by patriotism and enlightened self-interest. When he inherited his father's coal mining and distribution company in 1958, Miller found that his Australian-built colliers and their unionized Australian crews could not compete economically with the dilapidated foreign-flag tankers and their low-wage Asian crews. He told the oil companies that unless they used Australian tankers, which would raise their costs and thus make coal more competitive, he would go into the oil-tanker business himself. Says...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...
...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
...know. But the man who won that game for S.M.U. was John Roderick, a track man turned halfback...