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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was once asked to name the three greatest generals in history. Half smiling, he replied, "The other two were Alexander the Great and Napoleon...
...Flame. Margaret and her husband, newly created the Earl of Snowdon, set up housekeeping in a large Kensington Palace apartment and soon became fixtures on the club and party circuit of swinging London. They had two children: David, Viscount Linley, now 14, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, now eleven...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
...Died. Viscount Brookeborough, 85, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 and a staunch adversary of the Irish Republican Army; in Colebrook, Northern Ireland. Sir Basil Brooke until his elevation to the peerage in 1952, his refusal to bring the Roman Catholic minority into Northern Ireland's public affairs left his country with a legacy of strife that overshadows his positive achievements...
...Land-Rover had meanwhile made it onto the tarmac and was circling the Viscount, but only one of the three Arabs had a gun. He fired repeatedly at the plane without causing any appreciable damage. Another Arab threw a bag of explosives near the aircraft but it did not go off. By this time, an Israeli security agent was strafing the car with a submachine gun. He wounded all three guerrillas, one fatally, and the Land-Rover crashed into a mobile generator...