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...answer split Macmillan's government down the middle. Ted Heath, chief Government Whip in the House of Commons, flatly warned the Cabinet that he could not guarantee the support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop...
Five & Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton and just turned 21, proved himself one of the few contemporary playboys without self-delusions. Announcing that he will soon descend from his new mountaintop eyrie in Beverly Hills to go to Italy and some sports-car racing, well-heeled Driver Reventlow forthrightly justified his indolence: "I guess you might say I'm a playboy. But I like what I'm doing, and I'm never bored like so many people are who work all the time...
Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits...
Missouri. Democrat James T. Blair Jr., scion of a politically powerful Missouri family whose roots go back to the 1800s, launched himself into office with a full-dress parade, beefed up by nearly 600 newly created honorary "colonels," and with a two-part inaugural ball. Once in office Jim Blair declined to move from the family home into the 32-room executive mansion, called it a "drafty old barn that would be just like climbing cardiac hill four or five times a day. You could take a well man and put him in there, and he would be a sick...
...only surplus was labor; Catini was saddled with 47,000 workers who by law could not be laid off. Carlo Faina, who headed Catini's Rome office, started out to rebuild the company. A cheery aristocrat who differs from Donegani in every respect except drive, he is the scion of a line that once ruled a large slice of Italy (said a medieval couplet: "From Roma to Perugia, it's all Faina"). After World War I. in which he got three decorations and was seriously wounded, he was hired through an ad by Donegani as his assistant...