Word: chancellor
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Once, when lunching with young Winston Churchill in 1895, the Chancellor of the Exchequer fashioned a wonderfully weary ormolu dictum: "My dear Winston, the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens." Churchill, of course, spent a lifetime of 90 years learning that practically everything happens, especially, from time to time, the unthinkable...
...commission, which is made up of five state senators, ten state representatives, the chancellor of higher education and nine public members, will "study the present system and consider whether it is functioning well; if it is not, the commission will look into what alternatives and changes would improve the system," Ames added...
Radical terrorism remained an affliction of the Western democracies, but one battle was won in that war. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bravely outplayed the Palestinian terrorists who skyjacked a Lufthansa airliner in October, saving the lives of 86 with a commando attack at Mogadishu, Somalia. Soon afterward, however, the body of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnaped by Baader-Meinhof gangsters six weeks earlier, was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in France...
...billed as "a light program in which the guests play themselves," so Denis Healey, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed...
...world markets. Sales of textiles, a major export, are off 3% from last year. Makers of machine tools, who normally export three-fourths of their production, are reduced to hoping that they can close the year with no more than a 20% drop in exports from 1976. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has fumed privately to friends that in letting the dollar fall Washington has shown itself to be bereft of "the slightest economic sense." Switzerland's Weltwoche magazine complains: "Using the dollar weapon, America is waging a real trade war, a war against its friends." If the slide...