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...bobbies came, dragged out the body of a woman, then poked deeper into the dark space, and found two more bodies trussed in blankets. The men from Scotland Yard came next morning, pulled up some suspiciously loose floorboards, and found a fourth body. All the women had been subjected to what the Yard called "uncontrollable, passionate outbursts," and then strangled with cord or rope. One, a woman of 54, turned out to be Ethel Christie, wife of the man who just vacated the flat. She had been dead for four months. The others proved to be a tall, shapely, Irish...
...Glasgow, Scotland...
...halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...security precautions were extraordinary. Police leaves were canceled, and specific news of each scheduled event was blacked out until it was over. Scotland Yard's Special Branch issued detailed instructions to its security forces only at the last minute, and then not by phone but by messenger. Chief constables throughout Britain were ordered to report on all Yugoslavs in their areas; special officers, working with the Yugoslav embassy, guarded all suspected individuals-monarchists, anti-Titoists, crackpots and Communists-according to "danger value...
...British Petroleum." The man who bossed the pumps is Anglo-Iranian's chairman, Sir William Fraser, 64, a tough, aloof Scotsman. The son of an oilman, he started out in Scotland's hardscrabble oil-shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy...