Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from outside influences by an electrified barbed-wire fence, patrols of police dogs and Indian machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...
Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...
...will probated in Los Angeles, the late electronics trailblazer, Dr. Lee de Forest, bequeathed $1 apiece to his three daughters, and very little more for his only other heir, fourth (and last) wife Marie Mosquini. The "Father of Radio" -whose 1906 invention of the audion tube had also made possible long-distance telephony, talking movies and television -had burned out his fourth fortune and wound up with...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
...While United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage...