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Last week the baron and about 130 of his brainy countrymen were at Sukhum, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Well-fed, well-paid and well-treated, they live in a comfortable manor house, surrounded by palm trees and fragrant eucalyptus gardens. A mile away is their laboratory, where they work with a roughly equal number of Russian colleagues on an intensive program of atomic research...
...nearby hills, a new, shadeless city of 33,000 people spread itself-the Portuguese-style manor house of Engineer Soares, the well-equipped homes of the 45 U.S. technicians who directed the mill's construction, 2,800 two-family workers' cottages, complete with wooden floors and bathrooms...
Field IV's name and his born-to-the-manor air have not yet handicapped him in a business where stuffed shirts are liable to get taken to the cleaners. Last week he was getting along fine with North Side bookies, gracefully dropped $40 in a poker game with cops and reporters. Says balding Bill Block, Sun police reporter and Field's current mentor: "Everybody likes him and they all think he's a lot more democratic than they thought...
...past seven months burly Baron Digby has risen at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast his Lordship, wearing his habitual thick brown tweeds and checked cap on his bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
...must to all men, Death came last week to the softspoken, knife-witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned from setting up the World Bank and Fund which he had helped to draft in 1944 at Bretton Woods...