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...South Africa found an unexpected and outspoken defender in Britain's flamboyant Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who was on a visit to Johannesburg. Monty told reporters he found it "very curious" that the U.S. had voted to condemn apartheid, because "it has much the same racial setup inside its own borders." Warming to a favorite subject, Monty added that the trouble with Americans is that, instead of furnishing "sure leadership" to the West, they go around the world saying, "What good guys we are." Monty also confided that he wanted to examine the racial situation in South Africa...
...achieved my goals and even surpassed them," Kubitschek said as he sprawled out in his personal turboprop Viscount, his shoes, coat and tie off, and his toes wriggling happily. "They say it's madness to go so fast. We have to go fast. We have 63 million people and nearly 2,000,000 more people every year to feed, clothe, to supply with power and tools and the essentials of life." He points to his record: 1956 auto production zero, this year 170,000; 1956 oil production 5,000 bbl. a day, this year...
...calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped up. In his best parade-ground manner, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, no candidate but deep in the battle, barked: "Anybody who votes Labor should be locked up in a lunatic asylum...
...ORDERS worth $40 million were placed by Capital Airlines for seven Convair 880s and five Lockheed Electra turboprops, to begin service in mid-1960. To place orders, Capital arranged to stretch out payments of $37 million owed for its 57 Vickers Viscount turboprops...
Died. Claud Ambrose Cardew, 89, uncle of British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Nyasaland's oldest white settler, a member of the first British expeditionary force to march into Southern Rhodesia (1890); of strangulation, at the hands of an unidentified assailant; in his home in Ncheu, Nyasaland...