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Jack Kennedy's favorite book is David Cecil's Melbourne, the biography of William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), who was Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister. Readers have noted striking similarities between the character, vigor and intellectual attainments of the Kennedy family and Lamb & Co.-who sparkled in an age of new frontiers and brilliant individuality. Running through the pages, too, is a startling bevy of women named Caroline...
Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...
...stepped out of his grey-and-gold Viscount at Washington National Airport, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker radiated anticipation and good cheer. Hustling up to the knot of waiting U.S. and Canadian officials, he grasped the arm of newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Canada Livingston Merchant and confided: "We're very glad you're coming, we couldn't be more pleased." Then, turning to face the TV cameras, the man who has taken as strong a position as anyone in his nation against excessive U.S. influence over Canada firmly declared: "When I read...
...stone-flagged lobbies. But although he was duly elected to Parliament from South-East Bristol in 1950 and returned three times since, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 35, dared not enter the Commons chamber last week. The reason: upon the death of his father, Tony Wedgwood Benn had become the second Viscount Stansgate. As a peer, he was ineligible to sit in the House of Commons...
Life or Death. Late last month, when the first Viscount Stansgate finally died at 83, Tony Wedgwood Benn found himself in limbo. The very day the old viscount breathed his last, the Commons cut off his now titled son's pay; all the young Benns, including four small children, were left without means of support. Tony's unemployment status was made official when his national insurance cards were returned. Nobody listened when the hapless peer insisted that everyone keep calling him just plain Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn. When he applied for the usual M.P.'s railroad pass...