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Whatever its political implications, Big Lift was undeniably one whale of a show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers...
...attached his name and family seal to a document renouncing six ancient peerages. Thus, less than a week after taking office, the 14th Earl of Home became Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, commoner, and so qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
Harold the 14th. At week's end Douglas-Home took off for the solidly Tory constituency in Scotland. Though he faces five opponents, he is certain of victory both as a Tory and a bra' bonny Scottish laird. The new Prime Minister also displayed a considerable knack for public relations, allowing his wife to tell women reporters all about his habits, including the way he takes his porridge-sitting down and with lots of sugar, unlike the traditional Scotsman, who eats it standing up and with salt. As for criticism of his "remoteness" from life, the millionaire Prime...
...miseries of the depression in Lanarkshire helped swing his political views left of center. Despite the criticism that he knows nothing of domestic issues, he was concerned with a wide range of economic and social problems as Lanarkshire's M.P. and later as Secretary of State for Scotland...
...mindedness," even his grin, are deceptive. William also vows that under Home, unlike Macmillan, "there won't be any nepotism." Says he: "Sister Bridget won't be chairing the Tory conference at Blackpool, my bird-watching brother Henry won't be next Secretary of State for Scotland, I will not be sent to the U.N., and Edward, my youngest brother, who spent four years on the Burma railway as a prisoner of war, will not be Minister without Portfolio in the Far East...