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Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply to giants apply equally to dwarfs, except that exaggeration gives way to understatement." The strictures even apply to the McWhirter family. It is not that Ross McWhirter disbelieves his grandfather. He simply wants to state the fact correctly...
Right Timing. By the end of 1974, moreover, the British army had stalemated the Proves in Northern Ireland. "Things had been going wrong," one I.R.A. leader told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "and the timing was right for a cease-fire." The only chance that it would succeed was a significant British concession on withdrawal. Failing that, the I.R.A.'s strategy for 1975 involved an intensified campaign of terror-not in Ulster, but in Britain...
...Guinness Book of World Records 1975, McWhirter & McWhirter...
...estate outside Rome to a comfortable but hardly imposing house in the suburbs of London. With a household staff of three and a personal secretary for the King, they live almost like newlyweds, with furniture borrowed from her family. It was here that Constantine granted TIME'S William McWhirter his only recent interview...
...account of CIA involvement in Chile was written by Associate Editor Edwin Warner and reported mainly by Washington's Latin American specialist Jerry Hannifin, with supplementary material from London Correspondent William McWhirter and Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who covered the overthrow of Allende. While reporting from Chile last year at the time of the truck drivers' strike before the coup, Rauch had asked a group of truckers who were enjoying a hearty barbecue on the tailgate of one of the vehicles blocking the road leading into Santiago just where they had got the money for such...