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...Sheikh was in 1956 in a military DC-3. We came in for a hard landing on a makeshift airstrip. There were no roads and no inhabitants. The only man-made attractions were two British-built naval guns that had been spiked by retreating Egyptians. This time, my Arkia Viscount made the flight from Tel Aviv in 70 minutes and glided to a powder-puff landing on a hard-topped runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing...
...government has announced a policy of state "disengagement" from industry. Hoping to stimulate free enterprise and cut back on public expenditure, Heath intends to sell some state operations to private companies and seek partnerships with private investors in others. His campaign became apparent in November when he fired Viscount Hall, chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Hall was opposed to attempts to tinker with his 500,000-man empire, especially its enterprising nonpostal activities: computer sharing, a savings bank and a personal-loan service. A former Labor member of Parliament, Hall called his sacking "a monstrous rape of the corporation...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...
...they have remained ever since, first as rulers and later as the subjects of an Ottoman hegemony that ended after the British captured Jerusalem in 1917. The British took part of Palestine east of the Jordan River to create Transjordan as a reward for the Hashemite dynasty, which helped Viscount Allenby defeat the Turks...
Never more so than on one recent night, when some 1,000 paying visitors to the château gathered in the verdant gardens to hear the first in a projected series of orchestral concerts. The program, chosen by the viscount himself, suited both the occasion and the location: Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and Haydn's celebration to The Bear...