Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is an eccentric misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a stunning performance that is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style, Alec McCowen manages to evoke for Rolfe a sense of pity and affection...
...William B. Hopkins '71 had been granted a leave of absence beginning December 10, two days before the Paine Hall sit-in. An Ad Board vote of January 12 rescinded this decision in light of Hopkins' participation in the sit-in, making readmission contingent upon his activities while away from the college...
...report only to Chairman Fred J. Borch, the man who gave up the presidency but remains very much the chief executive. The group's main task is to squeeze more earnings out of G.E.'s steadily increasing sales. Last week in Manhattan, Borch publicly introduced his triumvirate-William Dennler, Jack S. Parker and Herman Weiss. He also reported that sales reached a record $8.4 billion in 1968-double ten years ago-but profits did not keep pace. A preliminary estimate shows earnings are, as Borch put it, "no more than 2% below" 1967's record $361 million...
Parks has long been a friend of William L. Adams, sometimes known as Little Willie, whom the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in 1951 named as Baltimore's top operator of the numbers games. Little Willie is a director of the sausage company, and until last week he and Parks each owned 44% of its shares; now each has 26%-a controlling majority between them. If Parks had some rather unusual financing in his earlier years, that was possibly due to the fact that he was cold-shouldered by white bankers...
...offer to head the Association of American Railroads and accepted in stead Lyndon Johnson's appointment as the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Last week Boyd joined the rail roads after all - under a different Johnson. He took the post of president of the Illinois Central Railroad, succeeding William B. Johnson, 50, who will be come chairman while remaining chief executive. "W.B.J.," as he is known around the railroad's Chicago headquarters, will also continue to head the parent Illinois Central Industries. It is a holding company that owns more than $200 million worth of real estate...