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...every soldier knows, greatcoats are never-no, not ever-worn on the parade ground at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point near London. Mindful of his own days there, Jordan's mitey monarch, King Hussein, carried the custom 14 miles northward when he turned up in ordinary service uniform to review the annual Passing Out parade at the R.A.F.'s Cranwell College in blustery Lincolnshire. No one dared to cross Jordan's stormy ranks, and for a frigid 45 minutes the R.A.F.'s top brass shivered along while hardy Hussein marched around. Chattered Station Commander Group...
Nehru fortnight ago appointed Lieut. General B. M. Kaul, 50. to act as "Commander of the Special Task Force to Intensify Operations Against the Chinese Intruders." A tough, Sandhurst-educated antiCommunist, Kaul was placed on indefinite leave last August after he questioned Defense Minister Krishna Menon's appeasement policy toward Red China. Kaul's new assignment from Nehru: ''To free our territory in the northeast frontier." Said Nehru at week's end: India's forces are "strongly positioned and in a large number operating from higher ground than the Chinese...
Defense. In military affairs there is no central organization to coordinate strategy. But most Commonwealth members use similar equipment (hence the significance of India's intention to buy Russian MIGs), exchange officers even when foreign policies are in sharp contrast. Most Commonwealth officers are products of Sandhurst, the Imperial Defence College, and other English military schools...
...Sandhurst-trained David Niven never lets down the light comedy side of officership. As Blasi, Sordi lacks comic bite, and tends to be more laughed at than with. Director de Laurentiis seems to abide by some central-casting Geneva Convention that national stereotypes are immutable. The English are natty, tightlipped, unflappable. The Italians are sloppy, openhearted, fidgety. The film is unflaggingly amiable, and a few of the older moviegoers may be nagged by the recollection that the real thing was less jolly...
Goodbye, Vivienne. Lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 168 Ibs.) Author Fleming, 53, a product of Eton and Sandhurst and sometime reporter, editor, columnist and naval intelligence officer, began writing his giltedged Bonds in 1952 "because my mental hands were empty and as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married...