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Last week Britannia, who has never hesitated to claim mastery over the waves, reduced the Atlantic to mere ditch-size. The three-man crew of a sleek, black & silver British Canberra Mark V jet bomber took off from Northern Ireland's Aldergrove Airport one morning, crossed the Atlantic, had lunch in Gander, Newfoundland, and were back at Aldergrove in time for tea. Flying time: 7 hrs. 59 minutes...
Turboprop Transports. Whether or not De Havilland could fill the order, the Britons were already making new claims to commercial jet supremacy. This week, at the annual Farnborough show, they will fly the world's first turboprop transports,† Bristol's 104-passenger Britannia, Vickers' 40-to-53-passenger Viscount. These turboprops are designed for nonstop runs too long (e.g., the North Atlantic) for the Comet to fly, or too sparsely traveled (e.g., to Sweden) to justify Comets...
...likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more government benefits than any other group in the land, while Britannia figuratively begs them to help save her from the shame of bankruptcy by mining just 10% more coal...
Left-Wing Forward. It was 9:30 a.m. and scores of M.P.s were nodding, when the biggest of all the Bevanites demanded to be heard. The Honorable Bessie Braddock, whom Winston Churchill once dubbed "that constipated Britannia," plays left-wing forward on Nye Bevan's team. Outside the House of Commons, she works as a model for ladies' outsize garments (bust 50 in., waist 40 in., hips...
Partner Troubles. Knowing that their Britannia no longer rules the waves of current history, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden crossed the Atlantic in December to call the U.S. to the rescue. "Britain and the U.S.," proclaimed Churchill, "are working together and working for the same cause." Privately, he recognized rifts. He felt that the U.S. now treats Britain as a junior partner, as one of a net of European allies; Churchill would not be dealt with as part of a blob. On their side, U.S. officials found Eden and Churchill, after six years in exile, dismayingly out of touch with...