Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abroad. It puts most of the Times's Washington and foreign coverage on the wire, plus some of the paper's local reporting; it also sends out the daily Times front-page makeup to show other editors how to play the news. Editor-Manager Rob Roy Buckingham aims for more and more subscribers among the nation's smaller newspapers. "The spread of the defense industries is bringing Ph.D.s into small towns," he says. "And people from the East, who are used to a diet of the Times, are moving all over...
...business, Lancashireman Robens won a seat in Parliament, at 40 became Clement Attlee's Minister of Labor. In 1961 a Conservative government asked him to take over the red-inked coal board, which had become a music-hall joke. Robens moved into the board's office behind Buckingham Palace, mounted a housewives' coal-buying campaign, and announced to the workers: "The miner never had a better friend than Alf Robens." He was soon made a baron...
...William Buckingham's set is cramped and jury-rigged, even considering the difficulties of setting up in the House dining hall. The lighting often casts shadows over the actors' faces and is slow coming on. One technical touch is superb, however: a snatch of wistful carnival music used as the theme for the glass menagerie...
...acquisition of New York's Ruppert brewing business by Rheingold was conceived by Loeb, Rhoades. Wall Street's Lehman Bros, works on about 100 possible combinations a year, so far in 1965 has arranged the mergers of U.S. Vitamin with Revlon and of whisky-importing Buckingham Corp. with Schenley. Last year Lehman negotiated some 20 mergers, for which the purchase prices totaled more than $700 million. Goldman, Sachs last year put through more than ten key mergers, including Genesco's acquisition of the Kress variety-store chain, Transamerica's purchase of Braniff and Lanvin...
...Beatles stepped forward in the state ballroom of Buckingham Palace and bowed shyly. "How long have you been together now?" the Queen asked softly. "Oh, for many years," muttered Paul McCartney. Then Queen Elizabeth II pinned the silver badges of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on their solemn, ungear suits. Outside, things were normal again, with a few hundred caterwauling kids trying to crash the palace gates and the Beatles bubbling Liverpudlian again. "She's got a keen pad," whooped Paul, "and I liked the staff. I thought they'd be dukes...