Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career. His role as co-chairman of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which ended the French involvement in Indochina, is described by Historian A.J.P. Taylor as "a beautiful diplomatic operation." That year Eden also found a formula for rearming West Germany that was acceptable to Paris. Labor's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, lauds Eden for "an inspired piece of first aid, which held Europe militarily together...
...Soho restaurants because the tables were so crowded with customers. The IMF representatives at first wanted Britain to cut its deficit almost in half, to $9.9 billion in two years, but later settled for the $5.8 billion reduction. Yet, as TIME'S Frank Melville learned, when Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey presented the package to the rest of the Cabinet, he was confronted with a wall of angry opposition from the right and the left...
...satisfy his ministers, Callaghan agreed to speak personally with U.S. President Gerald Ford and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, whose countries will have to put up most of the money for the IMF loan. He spoke on the transatlantic telephone to Ford, and cornered Schmidt face to face at a European Community meeting in The Netherlands last week. Both men refused to budge on the conditions sought by the IMF. Some British Cabinet ministers were dazed at the news that Schmidt, a social democrat like the British Laborites, had been every bit as tough as Republican Ford...
...boost the ailing network into Nielsen heaven. The news department becomes part of Christenson's entertainment empire, and, as the "mad prophet" of the air waves, Beale gains 60% of the audience and puts the double-whammy on such stolid, sane types as Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. "Howard Beale is processed instant God," Christenson gushes, "and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore...
Dennis Crowley, back once again to sing the patter song, is another familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes. His rendering of the difficult patter song is excellent, with every word--well, just about every word--clearly audible...