Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letters column of your issue of May 28, Mr. Murray Baron calls me one of the "articulate pleaders for diplomatic and economic intervention by the U.S., insofar as recognition of and trade with Red China are concerned . . ." May I say that this is a complete misrepresentation of my position. As late as March 2 of this year, I submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a statement opposing indiscriminate trade with Communist countries, especially China. I have always held, and so stated many times in print, that we must use trade with Communist countries as a political weapon...
Died. Neil Perrins, 49, sixth-generation head of saucemaking Lea & Perrins, whose 1837 formula for Worcestershire Sauce was brought from India by the third Baron Sandys and is still mixed behind locked doors; aboard his yacht in Lewis Island, Outer Hebrides...
...MURRAY BARON...
Tykocinski, who for eight years had been the ranking Polish diplomat in West Berlin, was the most important Communist to defect to the West in years. He was also one of the most puzzling. Known to fellow diplomats as "the Gypsy Baron," Tykocinski is a gregarious bear of a man who liked to claim he was "a socialist but not a Communist." Nevertheless, he enjoyed the full confidence of his government, for the Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week...
Died. Lord Mowbray, 69, England's Premier Baron (his title, the country's oldest, dates back to 1283), who in 1962 invoked the rarely exercised peer's immunity to prevent his estranged wife from having him jailed for refusing to return her family heirlooms (a silver matchbox, two trays, two bowls, three swords and a wig); after a long illness; m Harrogate, Yorkshire...