Word: gerrard
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Died. Louis Oppenheimer, 85, director of London's Diamond Corp., which controls 90% of the world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg...
Haughtyculturist. In Gerrard's Cross, England, outraged when he found four of his favorite rhododendron bushes missing, Fernley F. Parker chained the remaining five to a nearby oak tree, put up a sign in red crayon: "The person who has now stolen four of my special rhododendrons from here is a despicable coward and thief...
Early in April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...