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Important Patient on lonely Jura Island in the Hebrides. On a fishing outing far from London and the Denning report (see THE WORLD), Lady Astor, 31, beautiful third wife of Lord Astor, suddenly collapsed and was in danger of losing her second child, due in March. On doctor's orders, the former London fashion model, nee Bronwen Pugh, was hurried back to the mainland, rough seas or no, and rushed supine, but smiling, on a stretcher to a Glasgow nursing home...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Prestons go to Fire Island for the weekend, encounter a poltergeist and a murder. Guests include Mary Astor, Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett. Repeat...
...mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks, gun emplacements, troop concentrations). The Navy has the 8-mile Asroc and the 11-mile Astor (both ship-launched torpedoes), the 65-mile Talos (a ship-launched, 1,850-m.p.h. antiaircraft and shore-bombardment weapon), the not-yet-operational 25-mile Subroc (a submarine-launched antisubmarine rocket), and the Navy and Air Force both use the 6-mile Bullpup (fired from airplanes at tactical ground targets...
...sense of outrage does remain. Profumo, for example, would not dare to enter one of the St. James clubs, or to appear at the Goodwood races (he fled to Scotland and his sister's place during the recent bank holiday). Lord Astor continues to entertain, but, says one Establishmentarian, "people resent him for mixing his family and his circle with his peccadilloes...
...note written four days earlier explained: "It's a wish not to let them get me. I'd rather get myself." Every Englishman had his own obituary for the man who was written off on the court docket as "defendant deceased." Stephen's friend "Bill," Viscount Astor, a somewhat belated witness of high estate, allowed piously: "His readiness to help anyone in pain is the memory many will treasure." In one way or another, the ghost of Stephen Ward seemed likely to haunt many Top Britons as assiduously as the dashing doctor ever courted them...