Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor Government, which nationalized steel over the anguished outcry of industry and the Conservative minority, the new man is an astonishing-but shrewd-choice. He is an Etonian, a Tory and a peer-Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 42, third Baron Melchett, grandson of Alfred Mond, founder of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a successful merchant banker and gentleman farmer in his own right. Thus, in case of fiasco, Labor will always be able to blame a Tory. "It's quite a fascinating thing," he said softly, "to be asked to do something as large and as complicated...
...delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...
...groom was Captain Harold Macmillan, a Grenadier Guard, Old Etonian and classical scholar of Balliol, who would almost certainly never have written a book about himself (the family publishes, but does not write) had he not also, by the laws of the British invention called natural selection, become Prime Minister...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The famous Etonian "Wall Game" from England and the National Collegiate Rodeo from Laramie...
...Alec's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a relaxed Saint Bernard of a man. Ted Heath, an energetic "technocrat," made his reputation as Britain's hard-nosed representative in the ill-fated Common Market negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the Old Etonian tradition of the gifted amateur in Tory politics. Indeed, Sir Alec may well be the last of that line. If so, the last of the amateurs had made a thoroughly professional decision last week. With parliamentary recess looming, the new top Tory will have ample time to marshal his forces before...