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...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...
Lyons runs 29 other restaurants in addition to the teahouses, calls itself the world's largest caterer because it serves 3,500,000 meals each week for such clients as Buckingham Palace and Wimbledon. Yet food service now accounts for only 25% of its business, which is now well over $200 million yearly. Lyons started processing its own food to ensure quality for its restaurants, has gone on to become one of Britain's biggest food producers. It dominates the British bakery field with its 14 bakeries, is winning an increasingly large part of the ice cream market...