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...governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
...Prince Hassan, 13, deplaned at London Airport with his mother, Queen Mother Zaine, for the start of school. The natty young prince will attend Harrow, which Winston Churchill attended 68 years ago, and where Hussein matriculated for a year, made the soccer and rugby teams before moving on to Sandhurst...
...privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans for his inaugural three days before...
...shopped around to get ideas for his return to "basic democracies." The U.S. Information Service obligingly loaned its volumes on democracy, and Ayub boned up on Thomas Jefferson. In a series of private talks, then U.S. Ambassador James Langley briefed Ayub on the U.S. system. Though Ayub is Sandhurst-trained and an admirer of Britain, he wants to be free of the methods inherited from the British. "So long as I am alive and at the helm of affairs," he said last week, "there will not be parliamentary democracy in this country, because it cannot work. This country cannot...
Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...