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Second Choice. Macmillan's choice of stooped, spectacled Derick Heathcoat Amory as Thorneycroft's successor was well calculated to reassure the financial community if any man could. A shy, reticent Etonian who was wounded and captured while fighting with Britain's paratrooping Red Devils at Arnhem during World War II, Heathcoat Amory is a successful businessman who has helped make his family textile company one of Britain's most progressive. A staunch friend of the U.S. and an enthusiastic champion of the European free trade area, he has earned wide respect for his ability in administering...
...wiry young Gubabwingu tribesman found lying in the bush near the Yirrkala Methodist Mission, 400 miles east of Darwin in North Australia's desolate Arnhem Land, was paralyzed in the arms and legs and could scarcely breathe. Suspecting polio, the missionaries radioed for an air ambulance, and soon a 20th century thunderbird flew in to take Lya Wulumu (nicknamed Charlie), 19, from his Stone Age hunting grounds to Darwin Hospital. There four white doctors went to work...
...Kenya. General Sir George Erskine, 55, the big, cherry-cheeked commander in chief in Kenya since 1953, will be recalled to Britain; his successor will be a 48-year-old paratrooper: 6-ft. 4-in. Major General Gerald W. Lathbury, World War II leader of the British paratroopers at Arnhem...
Since 1951, several other Ket paintings have leaked wet paint, and last week, in the Municipal Museum of Arnhem, an expert gingerly fingered a bulge in the eye of a fifth. Covered by the dried surface film was a tiny pool of wet paint. The museum director, who has two other deteriorating Kets, took a deep breath and put in a call for a restorer who might be able to put Ket together again...
When British troops finally reached Arnhem, Audrey recalls, "I stood there night & day just watching. The joy of hearing English, the incredible relief of being free. It's something you just can't fathom...