Word: cheltenham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-sport athlete at Cheltenham High School, Fine starred primarily in basketball, where he led a breaking, pressing team and scored 20 a game...
...Michaelson convened a grand jury to investigate. While the jury was sniffing around, an anonymous tipster called the state police and told them that Bailey had an arrest record. State Police Captain Edward Pare found that Bailey had pleaded guilty in 1962 to shoplifting suits from a store in Cheltenham, Pa. He had paid a $100 fine and spent 60 days in jail. Pare also found that Bailey had been arrested in Massachusetts and Michigan, but he could not find out the disposition of those cases. A 1973 amendment to the Rhode Island constitution bars convicted felons from voting...
...suited for the chairmanship than the rather remote, moody and brittle Crosland. The son of a coal-mining engineer, Richard was born in South Wales, where he became a Labor supporter, as he puts it, "almost by the time I had learned to talk." He won a scholarship to Cheltenham, a leading private school, then went on to Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1964. When he lost his seat in 1974, Harold Wilson dispatched him to the U.N., where his quick repartee, enormous stamina and warmth of personality immediately made their mark. Says one former aide: "His method, which befits...
...gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school, Cheltenham College, If . . . ends with the students revolting against the stifling hypocrisies of the institution by mowing down faculty and trustees with machine guns and grenades...