Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Married. Baron James de Rothschild, 70, oldest member of the banking dynasty's French branch, one of France's leading sportsmen; and Yvette Choquet, 27, a Théátre de Paris usherette who five years ago showed him to his seat so graciously he invited her to dinner at Lapérouse; he for the second time (his wife of 41 years died two years ago), she for the first; in Paris...
Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones. From Britain, $40 million for famine relief and economic development. From the United Nations, $15 million for livestock feeding, community development and an anti-tsetse-fly campaign. From the U.S., a $70,000 twin-engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back...
...Baron Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie was using 15 minutes of state-controlled French television prime time to praise "my friend Ho Chi Minh" for canceling war-crimes trials of American pilots in Hanoi. It sounded as if the 66-year-old baron, Interior Minister in President Charles de Gaulle's first postwar Cabinet and a leader of Gaullism's left wing today, just might be echoing his master's loudly repeated opposition to U.S. policy in Viet...
...Bearsted, "and you grab them when you can." Last week Lord Bearsted hooked a notably big one-to become his own successor as chairman of Hill, Samuel & Co., Ltd., the largest of London's merchant banks in terms of capital, securities underwriting and profits. His prize catch was Baron Sherfield, 62, the former Sir Roger Makins, ex-barrister, able economist, gentleman-farmer, career diplomat and onetime (1953-56) Ambassador...
...CHARLES BARON...