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...various German emigre political groups in London; and indeed it is from his war experience that he derives much of his interest in modern German history. He returned to New College to teach, and to discover that many colleagues of his generation--Alan Bullock, A.J.P. Taylor, H.R. Trevor-Roper, for example--were reoccupied with the same problems, and for much the same reasons. The result was "a great revival in Oxford of historical study--a new interest in the whole field," and, of course, the founding of St. Antony...
...Heel and lost by three votes out of 3,000. He still talks about that defeat with a trace of anguish: "It was a heartbreaking election. It was the first and last time I ever ran for office." Harris learned his trade during nine years in the Elmo Roper polling organi zation. When he departed in 1956 to found Louis Harris & Associates, he took four Roper clients along with him - an unkindness that Elmo Roper has never forgiven. Today the Harris organization grosses roughly $700,000 a year, employs some 3,000 part-time interviewers, mostly women between...
...Graduate School YR's will present "The Case for Expanding NATO" at 3 p.m. tonight in the Harkness main meeting room. Speaking are: Robert R. Bowie, director of the Center for International Affairs; Elmo Roper, political analyst; and Oliver Schroeder, director of the Law-Medicine Center, Western Reserve University...
...book's English publication last spring precipitated a celebrated scholarly duel between Taylor and fellow Oxford historian and longtime rival, Hugh Trevor-Roper (The Last Days of Hitler), who attacked Taylor for "perversion of evidence" and "irresponsible antics...
According to one report, "The Princeton stands reacted with sullen rebellion; it was into this mood that the 'Poon injected a fake Crimson extra at halftime. Headed BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD with the explanatory crossline HELD BREATH TOO LONG, the issue left Mrs. Roper in a dead faint and football relations between the schools with an eight-year...