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After seven bright years as NATO's elder statesman and tireless gadfly, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, was retiring. One afternoon last week, after a round of farewell parties, doughty Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, stepped out of SHAPE'S headquarters building near Paris, marched briskly past cheering troops (including a blue-grey contingent of the Germans he had fought so well in World War II). Then Monty shook hands with his boyish-looking boss, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 51, and drove off. "Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier...
...France wrangled its way closer to the date of the referendum on its new constitution, Premier Charles de Gaulle got a ringing endorsement from an old comrade in arms. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, standing down as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe after half a century of soldiering, told a farewell Paris press conference: "Quite frankly, I am a Gaullist. General de Gaulle stands for France more than any other person in decades. He is a good guy-and he is going to put this country right. If anybody disagrees, I'll wager...
...capitalism.' " Many Asians complained that only three of the 33 members of the world council's board were Asians, and were only partly mollified by the election to the council's presidency of India's Methodist Bishop Shot K. Mondol (succeeding England's Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax). Western delegates, proud of the amount of free discussion in the convention, were disconcerted to discover that even some of the Japanese clergy strongly suspected that, as one of them said: "This emphasis on discussion groups is just an attempt to make propaganda for your American ideas about...
Died. Brendan Bracken, since 1952 Viscount Bracken, 57, British publisher and industrialist, Minister of Information during World War II, retired Member of Parliament, board chairman of the Financial Times, onetime managing director of the Economist, board chairman of Union Corporation, Ltd., giant international mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES will try to gain altitude with a major re-equipment program. For $15 million, it will buy nine British Vickers Viscount turboprops, expects to put them into service between New York, Washington, Boston, Montreal next month...