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...genuine horror story, calculated to make the most alarming of Rhodesian doomsday prophecies seem true. As a blood-red sun was sinking behind the thorn trees on the Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...
...DIED. Viscount Rothermere, 80, Fleet Street press baron who presided over London's tabloid Daily Mail, the Evening News and more than 50 provincial sheets of the Associated Newspapers Group, Ltd., founded by his uncle Lord Northcliffe and his father; in London. After serving a decade as a Conservative M.P., Rothermere took over the family newspapers and remained a strong force in British journalism until he handed over control in 1971 to his son Vere Harmsworth (now also the chairman of Esquire magazine). Though Rothermere's ultra-Tory Daily Mail trails the late Lord Beaverbrook's Daily...
Once, the couple's whirlwind courtship and globally televised marriage had moved sentimental Britons to the core. The tabloids fondly called Snowdon "the Jones boy." Their son David, Viscount Linley, was born in 1961, followed by a daughter, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, in 1964. But by 1967 the marriage began to show visible strains. Rumors abounded of Snowdon's dalliance with fashion models. Increasingly, Margaret appeared imperiously scornful of him in front of friends, throwing down too many gins and tonic, while he tooled around with a trendy branch of the Mayfair smart...
...very high positions, as husbands in such marriages can summarily be dismissed by their wives." Amin cabled his regrets to Snowdon in Australia, where the photographer kept busy last week with an exhibit of his photos in Sydney. Meg, meanwhile, dutifully returned to her official functions and took Son Viscount Linley to visit the destroyer H.M.S. Hampshire in London. The ship, which she and Snowdon launched in 1961, is about to be scrapped...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, Britain's most celebrated and controversial military leader during World War II, who in 1942 led his countrymen to their initial victory over the Germans at El Alamein in northern Egypt; at Isington Mill, Hampshire (see THE WORLD...