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Poor crummy chap, Jubb can be looked on as a true scion of all British sexual repression. Just as handily, he can be seen as an underprivileged victim of the lingering class system...
...private enterprise so infuriated the late Enrico Mattei, E.N.I.'s leftist president, that he set out to drive Gulf Italia from Sicily. The Italian left, attacking foreign investors in general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes, scion of a noble family that claims Pope Innocent XII and Mexico's Conqueror Hernando Cortes in its lineage. Pignatelli seemed an easy target: he graces Roman society's lavish dinner tables, is a jet-set sportsman, and can be tough in business: when his Ragusa field was mechanized...
Died. Princess Marguerite Caetani, 83, founder and patroness of the Italian literary magazine Botteghe Oscure, a wealthy Connecticut Yankee who wed the scion of an 800-year-old Roman family in 1911, provided a forum for both famed and struggling writers, among them Eliot, Gide, Camus and E. E. Cummings; in Latina, Italy...
...Hell of a System. The primary results pleased Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a matronly lawyer who currently chairs the school committee and repeatedly charges that Negro criticism of schools embarrasses "the home town of the President." Equally happy was Committeeman Joseph Lee, scion of the Lee Higginson investment house family, who calls the schools "damn good." Now largely up to them is a crucial decision: finding a successor for School Superintendent Frederick Gillis, 70, who retires this week...
...might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. when he returns next fall from a two-year tour in the sensitive embassy at Saigon, South Viet Nam. But last week the President's choice took nearly everybody by surprise. The ambassador-designate: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, scion of Massachusetts Republicanism, former G.O.P. Senator who was defeated for reelection in 1952 by aspiring young Democrat John F. Kennedy, sometime Ambassador to the United Nations, 1960 Republican nominee for Vice President, and father of the candidate who lost to Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts' 1962 U.S. Senate race-in short...