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Once again, Oxford bristled with protests. The vice chancellor of the University, the mayor of the town, and the chairman of the county council composed a joint letter to the Times. Lord Halifax, Lord Bledisloe, Lord. Pakenham and Lord Samuel signed another. The whole affair, said their lordships, was "intolerable." The city council's planning committee echoed the theme: the company's plan "ought never to have been made and should be disposed of summarily...
...different route." Some of the star guides were also missing. Undergraduate Miles Jebb, son of the U.N.'s Sir Gladwyn, did not show up to conduct the tour through Magdalen College ("He's so tired of being his father's son"). Nor did the Hon. Antonia Pakenham, whose bailiwick was Lady Margaret Hall ("She had her parents down yesterday...
Last week Britain admitted it had lost its Tudor bet. In the House of Lords, Civil Aviation Minister Lord Pakenham solemnly intoned: "I have regretfully come to the conclusion that this type of aircraft should not continue to be used for carrying passengers...
...Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...Great grandnephew of Major General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, who was killed by General Andrew Jackson's men at New Orleans...