Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet for himself. On the foreign front he is likely to echo Giscard's cordial internationalism, particularly toward the U.S. and the Common Market, in contrast to Chirac's brand of Gaullist nationalism. To soothe the Gaullists somewhat, Barre named Olivier Guichard-a Gaullist party baron and bitter Chirac rival-as Justice Minister. As to how the new Giscard-Barre team will get their measures past the National Assembly, the President thinks he has a solution: the Gaullists have no choice but to back him. So far, the party's reaction has been encouraging. But the fact...
Died. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell, 71, author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...blue and white, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron lifted off the choppy runway in Chillicothe, Mo., one evening last week, its occupants had good cause for jubilation. Millionaire Congressman Jerry Litton had just scored a dramatic upset in Missouri's Democratic senatorial primary. Now, accompanied by family and friends, he was headed for a victory party with 1,500 campaign workers in Kansas City's Hilton Plaza...
...radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked up a powerful group of Fleet Street papers including, in 1966, the prestigious Times of London. A certified "press lord" long before he was made a baron of the realm in 1964, Thomson was never a journalist. "I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money," he once said. "As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with...
French Charge d'Affaires Marie-Daniel Bourree, Chevalier de Corberon, has already reported to Paris that "Potemkin's reign is drawing to a close, even though he is smiled upon." Swedish Envoy Baron Frederik Nolcken speaks of the prince's "feigned or real disgrace." British Charge Richard Oakes believes "his favor to be absolutely at an end," and furthermore "it would not be surprising to see him end his career in a monastery...