Word: crestings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into British companies that contracted for large amounts of oil from Allied. In Manhattan the brokerage house of J. R. Williston & Beane, which lost heavily in its dealings with Allied, had to be merged into the stronger Walston & Co. And in Chicago, authorities refused an operating license to Oak Crest Refining Corp., a venture in which DeAngelis is one-third owner, on grounds that one of the officers was associated with oth er enterprises that were infiltrated by gangsters...
...LADY ORMSBY GORE. Invitations bearing the lion-and-unicorn crest have long been coveted in official Washington, and Sylvia ("Cissie") Ormsby Gore can have anybody she wants to dinner. In tact, she could probably have everybody, for the massive British embassy is among the world's largest and gets one ot the fattest entertainment-and-housekeeping allowances anywhere ($94,680). Sir David knows the President from the days when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to London, sails with him on the Honey Fitz and is friendly with most of the Administration's other key people. Cissie prefers having twelve...
Lord Home's crest shows a salamander standing in fire. To his friends, it symbolizes his patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just...
Back in Malaya, Sukarno's mob action stirred up retaliatory rioting. "Sukarno is a Communist bastard," howled a mob of 1,000 youths who invaded the Indonesian embassy, hoisted Malaysia's flag up the flagpole, and ripped down a heavy crest of a Garuda-a mythical bird that is Indonesia's national emblem. Escorted by motorcycle cops, the mob dragged the Garuda through the streets and onto the lawn at Abdul Rahman's official residence. There, they lifted the Tunku onto their shoulders, then lowered him so that he could put his feet on the battered...
...either, when he retired once more. "It's been an annual event for 20 years," said his son Max, who as an R.A.F. group captain flew the fighter planes his father built, and who will one day, if he lives long enough, inherit the Beaverbrook crest and empire...