Word: normans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collection Agency. In Amherst, N.Y., Norman Granville was arrested on a larceny charge when police discovered that he was building an addition to his home with 1 ) a tractor that had vanished from a tractor sales company, 2) $125 worth of plywood missing from a nearby home under construction, 3) two automobile wheels taken from an auto agency...
...Iain Norman Macleod, 45, Minister of Labor. Neither wealthy nor of aristocratic background, affable, bright-eyed Iain Macleod is believed by Tory leaders to have a special knack for reflecting the opinions of the middle class, added considerably to his political luster by correctly insisting that last week's election should be fought on domestic economic issues. An instinctive political animal, Macleod has been ambitiously reading up on Colonial Office policies and problems, but Macmillan may well decide he is still needed in the Labor Ministry to cope with Britain's unions. Either way, his name...
...book publisher sat in his spacious home in Norman, Okla. and swirled a glass of brandy. "There are no more hicks in America," said Savoie Lottinville, 52, head of the University of Oklahoma Press. "The cultural face of the continent has changed from concentration in New York and San Francisco. A great lot of the best ideas come from localities far removed from those great cities...
...Somerset Hotel "college program" has been extended for another year, according to Norman E. Lundin, Assistant Manager. The program which involves special weekend rates for students and faculty members was initiated five years...
...that Stanford had been weakened by too much scholastic inbreeding (i.e., some department heads and professors had simply floated to the top on the strength of longevity), Alway had gone scouting for new blood, and he quickly hired a dazzling array of new men for top jobs, e.g., Pediatrician Norman Kretchmer from Cornell, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg from the University of Wisconsin, Biochemist Arthur Kornberg (along with several members of Kornberg's department) from Washington University of St. Louis. So far, Alway has replaced three department chiefs, created a new department (genetics), added eleven new full professors...