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...visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only if it takes a bold stride into the rocket age. But his problem...
Last week, on a lightning-swept -night in the mountains of Troodos, the reward fell due when marksmen of the Suffolk regiment shot and killed the young Sten-gun-armed terrorist...
...Mollet. England's Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly in October. If the Queen is agreeable, a formal invitation will follow...
...soldiers faded a little faster early in World War II, when the Army announced that its traditional four-regiment, two-brigade divisions would give way to streamlined, speedier, three-regiment units. Last week the old soldiers of even the wartime triangular divisions received a shock. Adjusting to atomic strategy and tactics, the Army announced a complete reorganization of 18 active divisions along the lines of its 19th, the "pentomic" 101st Airborne Division...
From birth, Alexei Jawlensky, son of a Czarist colonel, was pointed toward a military career. But he wanted to paint. Sent to cadet school in Moscow and later commissioned in an infantry grenadier regiment, Jawlensky petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting. Finally he resigned, to take off for Munich with another young painting enthusiast, Baroness Marianne Werefkin. Six years later the handsome, passionate and strong-willed Jawlensky had a child by Marianne's young ward, Helena Neznakomov, who became his devoted wife...