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...boards of the five biggest banks, and a Labor Party study found that 35 out of 107 directors of London's top financial houses were all Old Etonians, as were 46 out of 149 directors of the large insurance firms. "The chairman of one board I sat on rang me up," complains one top British industrialist, "and told me, 'We're thinking of putting up so-and-so.' I asked if he knew anything about the business. The answer was 'No, but he's an awfully nice chap and married...
...there had been time to see Princess Irene become the bride of Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbon y Parma, and fortunately, the Dutch royal family was spared the spectacle outside Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore that looked more like a political rally than wedding festivities. The crowd rang with Carlist-battle cries of "Vivan los reyes!", and students from Spain's Loyola College, in the heart of Carlist country, serenaded the pair with guitars, tambourines and castanets. Irene's father-inlaw, Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, as gaunt and straight-backed as an El Greco grandee...
...Kingsbury was about to suggest that we resume our travels through the Tunnel when a loud series of long and short buzzes rang in his office. "That's our own private communication system," he explained. "There are telephones throughout the Tunnel, each with its own code of short and long rings. And when you make a call, the signal sounds on all of the phones. If you ever hear a steady 5-second blast, that means there's an emergency." (He added in passing that emergencies are rare. In fact, no serious explosion of a steam line has ever occurred...
...scorn rang a trifle hollow. Although he possesses a medical degree from the University of Dakar, Houphouet has been known to consult the omens of juju himself before making decisions, and even his name has a special juju meaning. In his native Baoule dialect, Houphouet means "pit of excrement"-a phrase intended to scare off devils...
Patricia Neal, also of Hud, won the best-actress Oscar.* Nearly eight months pregnant, she was asleep at her home in Buckinghamshire when the phone rang; next day she went down to London for a flashbulb greeting at Marylebone Station, with full obsequies by the top-hatted stationmaster...