Word: hauteness
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Last week Doug Dillon, the Harvard-accented scion of Cháteau Haut-Brion,* gave a typical performance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. At issue was the restoration of a $16.9 million appropriation to hire 2,500 additional tax collectors that the House had cut from Treasury's budget. Because the Internal Revenue Service is understaffed, argued Dillon, more than $24 billion in personal income went unreported and untaxed in 1959; the Government's share of that hidden wealth would be more than enough to balance the budget. As usual, Dillon appeared without a retinue of aides...
...foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily so that he would...
...time to save the President of Yugoslavia and a beautiful girl photographer. Only one thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these words about whether to attend a formal dinner: "Who am I to lower the tone of an haut monde evening with my simple little tweed?" Does Tito really need such help...
...mineral-rich province of Katanga, where anti-Communist Moise Tshombe rules with the support of Belgian businessmen, there was serious trouble. Tshombe's trigger-happy security forces raided the rebellious village of Luena, which supplies coal to feed the furnaces of the potent Union Miniére de Haut-Katanga. The troops reportedly "got out of control of their Belgian officers," bound the hands of 68 Baluba tribesmen and murdered them all with Sten guns. The U.N. called it "the most brutal massacre yet to have taken place in the Congo," and warned that U.N. forces would intervene...
...high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...