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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...
...many well-heeled Germans have fled to more pastoral retreats such as Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought 50% of all real estate sold since January 1961. Swiss retreats have long been favored by such Top Germans as Steel Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, whose Lugano villa houses an art collection that has become a big tourist attraction. But many of the country's plushest pads now belong to West Germany's top movie stars, including Curt Jürgens and Caterina Valente. After Nadja Tiller settled into a handsome hillside villa in Ticino...
...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...
...Assist for the Kaiser. Fokker's past is not all friendship. The company was founded in 1913 in Germany by a ruthless, conniving aircraft designer named Anthony Fokker, who shucked off his allegiance to The Netherlands to build military aircraft for the Kaiser. Baron von Richthofen and his Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s...