Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awhile, it seemed as though Jewish settlers would just try to acquire Arab tenants or laborers and replace the Turks, much as other colonists elsewhere replaced native exploiters of labor, even though the first stirrings of Arab nationalism--directed against the Turks--were beginning to be felt in Palestine. Baron Edmond de Rothschild poured considerable amounts of money into buying up land and settling Jews on it, with Arab peasants continuing to do the work. If this sort of thing had continued, Israel might have developed--if it developed at all--as a state close to the South African model...
DILLINGER is the first feature directed by John Milius, a young screenwriter who is as well known for his self-publicizing as for his screenplays (Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean). Sounding in interviews like a combination feudal lord, Texas land baron and bawdyhouse piano player, Milius proclaims the glories of guns, the beauties of blood lust and the masculine honor of big money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration...
...soon was diving in his Nieuport fighter to within 150 yds. of enemy planes before opening fire. When Hall was shot down and captured by the Germans, Rickenbacker took over Hall's group-and later the entire squadron-in the battle against the "Flying Circus" of "Red" Baron Manfred von Richthofen. By the end of the war, Rickenbacker had shot down 26 German planes and blimps, and had been awarded 56 decorations, including the Medal of Honor...
...With Oil-Baron Hurt hiding behind the plate waiting for a curve from Fran Schumeresque, Mike Brewer blasted one over Tree Wilking in center field for a four-bagger. The run was later nullified because Brewer, who plays semi-pro ball 40 hours per week, was ruled ineligible for yesterday's contest...
...Agnelli, Fiat; Giuseppe Bertola, Brown, Boveri & Co.; Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...