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...Bombs. Lately, though, some of his activities had been running into trouble. A wine company that he owned called Connoisseurs of Claret, Ltd. lost more than $100,000 in 1973. The general manager of the London Capital Group, a dizzy assortment of investment interests controlled by Stonehouse, and the managing director of his trading company, Global Imex, both resigned last summer claiming that Stonehouse owed them $35,000. Stonehouse put a country house that he bought two years ago up for sale and closed Global Imex's office in Bangladesh. It was apparently in search of additional financing...
Handsome and visibly upper-crust -a film producer once sought him to play the part of James Bond-Lord Lucan was thought by his friends to be the quintessence of the civilized aristocrat, a man who would raise his voice only to protest a spoiled claret or bemoan a bad shot at a grouse on the moors. After serving in the Coldstream Guards and undertaking a short, unspectacular career in business, he had retired on his $250,000 inheritance to carry on more engrossing pursuits, notably golf, skiing, the hunt and chemin de fer at Mayfair gaming clubs. His success...
...would sometimes weep and kiss the foreheads of soldiers killed in battle. He was remarkably observant, sometimes with a grisly poetry: "Saw a lot of dead Germans yesterday frozen in funny attitudes. I did not have my color camera, which was a pity, as their faces were a pale claret color." Gradually he crystallized his personality into a hard, violent mask. "My private opinion," he wrote in 1945, "is that practically everyone but myself is a pusillanimous son of a bitch...
...such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against the Fm-all-right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor, half buffoon...
...usually blends of wine made from several kinds of grapes, and are often sold in half-gallon or gallon jugs. Most generics are labeled with famous European geographical names, though the flavors can be quite different from the European. Some experts argue that the red generics (Burgundy, Chianti, claret) are slightly superior to the whites (Chablis, Rhine wine, sauterne...