Word: duke
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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan married into a family that stoutly upheld the tradition. Among the relatives of Lady Dorothy (daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire) still prominently around: Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (known to fellow M.P.s as "Sir Reginald Bullying- Manner"), Attorney General; Lord Balniel, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Public Housing; Robert Boothby, the able and voluble Scottish M.P. who was elevated to the peerage. Then there is David Ormsby-Gore, brother-in-law of the Prime Minister's son, Maurice; he is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
Adding to his government last week, Harold Macmillan saw no reason to deviate from custom. Into office as Secretary of State for Air went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
...other key games, alert Army defeated fading Syracuse, 9-6. Spotting Navy ten points, Duke rallied in the second half to spoil the undefeated record of the midshipmen 19-10. In the Big Eight, Iowa State continued the revolt against long-time champion Oklahoma (TIME, Nov. 7) by winning 10-6 for its first victory over the Sooners since...
...light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
...Duke University Law School Fuller taught young Nixon in class, but his alliance with the Vice-President as a political associate and advisor dates back only two years. When Nixon was visiting the Harvard Business School to speak Fuller met him and asked the Vice-President to address the Law School faculty. Since then the traditional Democrat has been for Richard Nixon...