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...more savagely than the Continent. Some 95,000 miles of highways were completely out of service. Eight-foot drifts blocked the main road from London to Portsmouth, and near Weymouth, belated rescuers dug down to a snow-buried car, found two dead and three nearly smothered travelers. Helicopters in Dorset saved 71 trapped bus passengers, including a month-old baby sheltered in a cardboard box. Asian Gur kha troops were called out from army camps to rescue stranded old-age pensioners in Wiltshire...
...travels lasted through the births of three more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then Dorset, and finally in a white brick Georgian house in Hampshire, a charming bedlam of bright children and assorted animals that was John's headquarters until he died...
...vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...
...posted and only two English counties north of London were out of quarantine. Even sportsmen and gourmets were affected: fox hunting was banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear the virus would be tracked...
Decline & Fall. In Upton, Dorset County, England, dismayed by the shoddy condition of one of the town's roads, D. K. Coleman fired off a letter to Italy, asked the Romans to come back to Britain and repair the road they built 1,600 years...