Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Mary Olivia ("Minnie") Gushing, 24, former Girl Friday to Manhattan Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta and daughter of Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing; and Peter Hill Beard, 29, a photographer-writer specializing in African conservation (The End of the Game) and great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, whom she met last year when she hurried to Kenya to care for her father, taken ill on safari; in an Episcopal ceremony followed by a reception for 400 guests; in Newport...
...other positions in business can match the chairmanship of Britain's huge National Coal Board, held for six years by blunt, ebullient Baron Robens of Woldingham, 56. "Lord Coal" or "Honest Alf," as he is known to Britons, runs a mammoth operation that has a work force (420,000) twice the size of the British army, ranks No. 3 on FORTUNE'S list of the 200 biggest non-U.S. companies. Because the company has been nationalized since 1947, the N.C.B. chairman is also a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the government. So last week, when...
...Labor Government, which nationalized steel over the anguished outcry of industry and the Conservative minority, the new man is an astonishing-but shrewd-choice. He is an Etonian, a Tory and a peer-Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 42, third Baron Melchett, grandson of Alfred Mond, founder of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a successful merchant banker and gentleman farmer in his own right. Thus, in case of fiasco, Labor will always be able to blame a Tory. "It's quite a fascinating thing," he said softly, "to be asked to do something as large and as complicated...
...indictments came after the Grand Jury testimony from Joseph (Barboza) Baron of Swampscott. Baron, incarcerated in Charles Street Prison on a gun-carrying charge, supposedly has a large amount of information on the gangland murders. Stymieing police authorities in the past has been the reluctance of knowledgeable witnesses to testify on the murders...
...Baron, supposedly angry at former underworld colleagues because of threats against relatives and friends, is willing to talk about the murders. Angiulo, because of the nature of the charge, is being held without bail. He faces a possible death sentence...