Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staged a doubleheader, splitting sales of 130 modern art works with a $50-a-plate black-tie dinner. On hand were such luminaries as A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, Playwright Edward Albee, Architects Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe, Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, the Duchess of Leeds and all three Kennedy sisters. Nearly 3,000 potential buyers crammed four floors of the auction house with the spillover relegated to the limbo of nearby Finch College, where they followed the high-tension bidding and the hammerings-down on closed-circuit television...
Most seriously hit was El Cobre, a tiny copper town run by a subsidiary of Baron Guy de Rothschild's Société Minière et Métallurgique de Penarroya. For 35 years the mineowners had channeled their slag into a reservoir behind a 230-ft. earth dam. Just below the dam were the wooden huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble...
...appearance before the committee, Bobby explained that Baron "was in fear of his life. He felt that if anything happened to him, if he was killed, he wanted to make sure his story was told. He asked me to put him in touch with somebody who would relate what he had undergone as a Teamster official. I made that arrangement. I did nothing else. Nothing, in fact, was ever published until Mr. Baron was physically beaten by Mr. Hoffa." LIFE Editor Edward...
...Committee Chairman Edward V. Long of Missouri was unimpressed. "Do I understand," Long asked Kennedy, "that you take the position that it is proper for a representative of the Justice Department, or the head of that department, to arrange for Mr. Baron to make contact with newspapers or magazines?" Replied Bobby: "That is not what was done, now, Mr. Chairman. There was a connection between Mr. Baron and LIFE magazine over which I had no control...
Kennedy: I thought Baron was a citizen who was reporting information and evidence in connection with illegal activities. Let me say I am shocked to hear that. I think there have been a lot of loyal people that provided information to the U.S. Government in connection with Communist activities, underworld activities, narcotics activities, at great risk to their own lives...