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In 2 a.m. darkness, a fire alarm clanged alive at the barracks of Britain's Grenadier Guards in the Chelsea section of London. Guardsmen scrambled aboard two old-fashioned civil defense fire trucks and sped toward a blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: When Firemen Stop Fighting | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Catching an airplane at most major European airports last week was a little like participating in military maneuvers. London's busy Heathrow was boxed by tanks with cannons uncovered and Grenadier Guards in battle kit. Rome's Ciampino had a sandbagged machine gun nest atop its control tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Halt! Who Flies There? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

WITH THAT he put a batch of clippings from the Sunday dailies and the wire services on my desk. They told of a shooting which had occured late Saturday night in a crowded neighborhood tavern. The clippings said police knew of no motive. They named the dead man and identified...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: The Boston Herald Traveler, 1825-1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Died. Peter Fleming, 64, peripatetic man of action and letters; of a heart attack; in Black Mount, Scotland. Though less famous as a writer than his older brother Ian, who created James Bond, Peter Fleming produced minor classics. His books Brazilian Adventure (1933) and News from Tartary (1936) are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1971 | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

Last week King Freddie came home to a hero's welcome. He was dressed in the uniform of a major general and accompanied by an honor guard from his old regiment, the British Grenadier Guards. His plane, a chartered 707, was escorted by four Uganda air force jet fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: King Freddie Comes Home | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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