Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce, first concocted in 1837 from a recipe brought out of India by the third Baron Sandys, and for years the world's best-known meat sauce...
...Miamistyle opulence. And near Port Antonio at the island's eastern end, where the vegetation is lushly tropical from the rainfall trapped by the towering Blue Mountains, is the picturesque San San section, where the Aga Khan's Uncle Sadruddin has pitched a tent, along with Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen and a collection of Swedish shipping moguls...
Robens' efforts won such respect that he was made a baron. But many Britons continued to receive with frank disbelief his predictions that the coal industry was about to turn the corner. Last week, however, when the Coal Board released its 1962 report, the skeptics were confounded: with profits of $3,000,000, the board was in the black for the first time in six years...
Republic of Engineers. Another close confidant of De Gaulle is Olivier Guichard, 42, who was Pompidou's administrative assistant before he caught the President's eye. A baron who maintains informal liaison with the left wing, Guichard is De Gaulle's traveling companion, troubleshooter and one-man intelligence network...
...Dallas. His specialty is creating moonlight, though he produces a myriad other effects to order. His work has taken him to both East and West coasts and as far north as Canada, but most of his clients are in the Southwest. For, quite aside from the pleasure an oil baron gets from seeing his flora through the picture window, he needs night lighting for another reason. The incinerating Texas sunshine discourages bosky browsing in the landscaped areas; southwestern millionaires take their ease among the trees as the gods once did-during the cool of the evening...