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...Cabinet and donor of the famed Davis Cup for international tennis; six children (four girls, two boys), the two youngest of whom will accompany their parents to Washington while the others stay on at school in Britain. A Makins theory on big families: "The second child is the Rubicon, if you can cross number two, the rest are easy. They raise themselves...
Once American arms have been committed in defense of moral principles, the Rubicon has been crossed. The die has been cast and there can be no turning back...
...PARATUR (BIG ROMAN ARMADA GETTING READY), Screamed its headlines. "Quando Caesar ad Britanniam navigaturus est?" (When will Caesar sail for Britain?) Three issues later, Acta bannered BRITANNIA VICTA! (BRITAIN CONQUERED'). By last week, the editors were up to 49 B.C. Gaul had been subdued. Caesar had crossed the Rubicon...
...first time since Caesar crossed the Rubicon, in 49 B. C., the Italian peninsula was a republic. In their first free national election in a quarter century, 24 million men and women (these voting for the first time) decided five-to-four against continuing the monarchy. Simultaneously, they took a stand beside their French cousins (TIME, June 10) for Western democracy and against the advance of Soviet Communism...
...What was the feeling in the provincial towns when Caesar had crossed the Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...