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...rich, he's mighty--small wonder that J.R., the industrial- strength lord of Dallas, is both a universal figure and a universal symbol of America. So it is that in Britain, Larry Hagman often has to sport a fake mustache. On one trip to Italy, the man who plays "Gei Ar" ducked into his Milan hotel room for some peace and quiet, only to find it crowded with Hagmanic paparazzi who had crawled in through the window. "I can only stay for a day in one place," he explains. "People come up to me everywhere and say, 'I have...
...Lord Carrington--the sixth baron to hold the 190-year-old British title--began his political career with his election to the Buckinghamshire County Council shortly after returning from World War II, during which he won a Military Cross for heroism. Since that time, the current Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has served as high Commissioner of Australia, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Conservative Party, and Foreign Secretary. He resigned the last position days after Argentina's 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands as a matter...
Considered by fellow politicos and close observers to be one of England's most popular statesmen despite an affiliation with the increasingly unpopular Tory party, Lord Carrington was once considered a strong candidate for the job of Prime Minister. Although Carrington denied interest in the position, he enjoyed more widespread respect than the present P. M. Many also saw him as one of the two or three people that could tell Margaret Thatcher when it was time for her to step down...
Calkins will be joined by Itzhak Perlman, an internationally acclaimed violinist; Paul H. Nitze '28, a chief U.S. arms negotiator; Lord Alexander Rupert Carrington, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the next president of Yale University...
...main speaker at Commencement this year,Lord Carrington, 66, the NATO secretary general,has served as Britain's high commissioner ofAustralia, first lord of the admiralty, secretaryof defense, secretary of energy, and chairman ofthe conservative party. He resigned from asforeign secretary after the Falkland Islandsincident...