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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has his own ideas about the U.S. proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians...
...presses still run at Plantin's establishment in Antwerp, but only to print souvenirs for tourists or the scrolls for such honorary citizens of Antwerp as General Anthony C. McAuliffe, Viscount Montgomery and Sir Winston Churchill. The house is now a museum, filled not only with the tools of the trade (15,000 type matrices and 5,000 punches, mostly from the 16th century), but also with more than 18,000 drawings, woodcuts and copperplate engravings used for illustrations. Though it is the best collection of its kind, it has been shown outside Antwerp only twice-in Belgrade...
...more humdrum world of the 20th century, witty, Cambridge-educated Sir Charles Vyner Brooke became even more of a legend than his predecessors. He issued his own stamps, flew his own flag, maintained his own army and police force. His ranee was Sylvia Brett, the beautiful daughter of a viscount who, it was said, had been Sir James Barrie's inspiration for Peter Pan. Another literary admirer was George Bernard Shaw. When Sylvia *married the rajah in 1911, he wrote: Ride a cock horse to Sarawak Cross To see a young ranee consumed with remorse. She'll have...
Christine's sponsor was a social gadabout named Stephen Ward. 43, an artist and osteopath who lives in a Thames-side summer house on Viscount Astor's famed estate at Cliveden. "I know a lot of very important people and am often received in some of the most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty...
...British representative of a company called Careers Inc., and a recruiter of talent for some 67 U.S. corporations. His hostile reception by the British is a measure of their concern over the loss of scientific and technical talent to the U.S., summed up fortnight ago by Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, who charged the U.S. with living "parasitically on other people's brains...