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...year-old aristocrat, who disclaimed his title in 1963 (and later shortened his name from Anthony Wedgwood Benn), he was weaned on politics. At Oxford, where he received an M.A. in history, Benn was president of the select Oxford Union and a masterly debater. He won the first of his twelve elections to Parliament from Bristol South-East in 1950 and served in several Labor Cabinets...
...life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have any electricity and we didn't have any telephone." Franklin, a businessman and farmer, remembered that their mother liked to buy Wedgwood in the neighboring village. None, somehow, spoke at first of the overpowering father figure for whom the sun set at Campobello when he contracted polio and then rose again when he hobbled away-from it and them-to become the only four-term U.S. President...
...Falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced and fighting over who gets ... the car and the Wedgwood are all serious. The new sexual freedom is solemn...
Callaghan's left-wing Energy Secretary, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, proposes instead to use North Sea revenues to raise the budget of the National Enterprise Board to $1.9 billion a year, more than triple the present figure. The N.E.B. makes loans and grants to industries strapped for investment capital. Benn's scheme is opposed by Labor moderates and the Confederation of British Industry; both see it as promoting further government intrusion in private industry. Yet some way must be found to channel oil revenues toward the modernization of industry if Britain is to meet consumer demand and remain competitive in world...
...much relieved. Le Monde estimated that by increasing coal production and reducing consumption, the U.S. could realize 55% of the possible energy savings for the entire industrialized world. Concluded the Paris newspaper: "These nations can therefore say, 'At last!' " A senior aide to British Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn commented, "It's an act of considerable courage for the leader of the largest energy user in the world to set out policies for conservation on such a scale...