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PIERS ANTHONY WEYMOUTH, also known as Lord Wedgwood, the 26-year-old scion of the English china dynasty, is touring America. He comes not to take "snaps" of the Grand Canyon or the skyline of New York, he comes to promote trade and commerce in the 'colonies,' a 200-year-old tradition in his family. One of Wedgwood's former local customers had been Benjamin Franklin; in Pier's few more...
...clear that the voters blamed Manley for the country's economic morass. During his eight years as Prime Minister, the handsome, magnetic Manley, 55, scion of the island's most prominent political family, had made some significant contributions to Jamaica: a minimum wage, free education, equal pay for women, newly built health centers and 40,000 units of low-income housing. But endemic poverty remained, and critics charged his administration with woeful mismanagement. His warm abrazo for Fidel Castro frightened the middle class as well as foreign investors. Soon Jamaica found itself with a severe brain drain...
...quintessential Southern gentleman: scion of a moneyed North Carolina family, graduate of Princeton University ('41) and Harvard Law School ('49), and recipient of a Bronze Star for bravery as a lieutenant aboard a destroyer at Okinawa during World War II. Now 61, Richardson Preyer entered Congress in 1969 and quickly earned a reputation on both sides of the aisle as a soft-spoken legislator of uncompromising integrity, high talent and moderate views. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona described him as "one of the most decent and intelligent gentlemen in this or any other legislative body." Two years...
...Ewing had not committed himself to a life of stylish wickedness-and if the part did not fit Hagman like an iron whip in a velvet glove-few viewers would care that he was near death or trouble themselves to ponder the assailant's identity. If the scheming scion of Ewing Oil were not surrounded by a nest of relatives, all pursuing their venal and venereal desires through a plot delirious in its complexity, he would be perceived as a cartoon villain among prime time's standard retinue of sanctified simps. If Dallas did not offer the rarest...
...looks like a good bet. This is a bigger boat than last year, and Yale has lost several blue chippers. Harvard has gained sophomores Charles Storey, bowman of the first freshman boat last year, and J.B. Kelly, scion of one of America's finest rowing families (his father won the Head of the Charles senior singles this year; his great-grandfather won the single sculls medal in the 1924 Olympics...