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...Woodford L. Flowers, head of Business School Executive Education and head of the Management Development program in 1970, said yesterday that executives in the program must be sponsored by their organizations...
...career spanning 35 years, more than 150 major-stakes victories and $12 million in purses, Thoroughbred Trainer Woodford C. Stephens has rarely indulged himself as extravagantly as he did last week. He took off three entire days to savor the biggest win of his life: Cannonade's victory in the Kentucky Derby. "I've always wanted to win it," says Stephens, 60. "It sort of completes everything...
Before independence, a Trinidadian politician named Eric Williams turned Port of Spain's Woodford Square into a radical forum during the 1950s. This year militants again used the Square as a "people's parliament," but to denounce Williams himself, now the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as an "Afro-Saxon"-a black man with a white mentality. The government's arrest of 14 militants last April set the stage for a week-long mutiny by half of the island's 750-man defense force; it also led to riots in which four lives were lost...
...fellow (who spent one year, one month and 26 days growing shoulder-length locks) tucked his flowing tresses under one of Woodford's wigs and snagged a job working for a gas-station owner who didn't want "longhairs hanging around." Another customer was in traffic court and, figuring that "I'd rather be prosecuted for my transgression against the Virginia traffic code than be persecuted for being a freak," he invested in one of Woodford's wigs. He didn't beat the rap, but the arresting officer said: "Well, one good thing came...
...Woodford views his anti-Establishmentarian invention with a certain amount of humanitarianism, well-laced with some simple cynicism: "It's great for certain situations when it's unprofitable to have hair, or at least too much hair. Since what some employers care about is appearance, that's what they get. Maybe that's all they deserve...