Word: chancellor
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With Cambodia going down the drain, four provinces of South Viet Nam lost [March 24], Thailand turning neutralist and the Philippines re-examining its commitments, where are the great sages now who ridiculed the domino effect? Where are you now, Sevareid, Cronkite, Chancellor, Brinkley, Reasoner, Newsweek, TIME? Let's hear it for the media party line and adversary mischiefism...
Publicly, Gladstone was not the least ashamed of what he called his "rescue work" with tarts. In 1853, he permitted a would-be blackmailer to make this work public rather than pay hush money. Gladstone's political career-he was then Chancellor of the Exchequer and righteous apostle of the balanced budget -was unharmed because Victorian society preferred to regard his evening excursions as an eccentric pet charity...
Saxon, vice chancellor of U.C.L.A. and provost of the entire university, will assume the top job at a crucial period. Once unquestionably one of the best universities in the nation, California has been buffeted by both the excesses of student demonstrators in the 1960s and the conservative fiscal policies of former Governor Ronald Reagan. Libraries and the physical plant have deteriorated, and the university's vigorous growth has been brought to a halt. Berkeley has dropped its departments of criminology and demography; U.C.L.A. has closed down its department of speech and graduate school of journalism. Although U.C. is still...
...leaders tell it, that financially uptight little island need only await the imminent tapping of North Sea oil and gas for the dawning of a bright new day. Prime Minister Harold Wilson jokes: "There is speculation which member of the Cabinet will become chairman of OPEC in the 1980s." Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey says that Britain's petroleum import needs will be halved by 1977 and eliminated within five years...
...first day as party leader, Mrs. Thatcher fixed herself a boiled egg for breakfast in her tony Flood Street house in Chelsea. Then she went to face ten party elders, including Whitelaw and Heath's shadow Chancellor Robert Carr, who warned her that they would refuse to serve in the shadow cabinet if she appointed Sir Keith Chancellor. Since Whitelaw accepted Mrs. Thatcher's offer of party deputy leadership later in the week, it is assumed that Sir Keith will have to settle for a less sensitive portfolio...