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...Never in my 20 years of covering Britain," says TIME Reporter Frank Melville, "can I recall a major crisis here that blew up so suddenly from out of nowhere." Says TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo: "Even though the confrontation is in Falkland waters, the nerve center of the fleet is London-at No. 10 Downing Street...
...which is certain to rise, the United States could afford only 100 of them. Carter rightly cancelled the planes because it was unlikely to be capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses and because the superior Advanced Technology Bomber or "Stealth" plane, would be available to replace the B-52 fleet early enough so that an interim bomber the B-1 would be unnecessary...
...miles covered during 71 hr. 40 min. in the air on six flights between Washington, London and Buenos Aires in twelve days. And still negotiations continued, with no resolution. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym came to the U.S. for two days of talks, even while the British fleet was closing in on South Georgia Island, a probable staging area for an invasion of the Falklands...
...demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy widower, Norman Lonsdale. He would be an atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that he would wed the Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would...
...view of life's pleasures and follies. Brimming with a youthful freshness and ardor, the seamless music of Falstaff could have been written only by a man well versed in the ways of the world. Giulini's interpretation went straight to the heart of this central paradox: fleet and light when it had to be, yet suffused with touching sympathy for Shakespeare's fat, amorous knight. It was comic in the Dantean sense...