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...great military parade and Boer festival celebrating the fifth anniversary of South Africa's resignation from the Commonwealth. In Cape Town, Parliament droned on in the third week of its new session, as Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd sat, chin in palm, in his green leather seat on the government's front bench...
Polish & Thrust. Though no stranger to finance, Sherfield will be the first nonbanker to preside over one of London's 16 elite merchant banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
...finish for a man of such vigorous habits, and Lord Moran's critics may be excused their squeamishness at seeing it so clearly documented. But except for his very last days, Churchill had the consolation of memory. "He always goes back to the Boer War when he is in a good humor," wrote Moran. "That was before war degenerated. It was fun galloping about...
...bound to triumph." The speaker was not talking about Red China and its assistance to Viet Nam. Nor was it the danger of an H-bomb in Chinese hands that alarmed him. The year was 1901, and 26-year-old Winston Churchill, fresh from widely publicized exploits in the Boer War, was addressing himself to the problems of the Orient in general-to say nothing of the rest of the world. But even though a reporter was on hand, busily taking notes, Churchill's opinions were not published until this month, when the 65-year-old interview appeared...
...merely by mischance, having previously failed his civil service exams. A big quiet clumsy boy, he passed out twelfth in his class at Sandhurst, and was promptly gazetted to the Inniskilling Dragoons near Durban, South Africa, where he spent the better part of the next 20 years. When the Boer War began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry-and a man with a mission. Astounded by the incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran...