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Older Sisters Unity and Diana lived it up with Adolf Hitler. Eldest Sister Nancy became one of London's "gay young things" immortalized by Novelist Evelyn Waugh, then started writing successful books herself (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love). At 19, Jessica eloped to Spain with Winston Churchill's leftist nephew, Esmond Romilly (who was later killed in World War II). Her outraged father persuaded Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to dispatch a destroyer to bring her home, but Jessica resisted the captain's effort to lure her aboard...
...Tories gained 75 seats for an overall parliamentary majority of 30. In the new House of Commons, they will have 330 seats v. 287 for the Laborites. Among the Conservative victors was Sir Winston Churchill's 29-year-old grandson and namesake, who won a seat at Stretford, Lancashire, in his second try for public office. Among the Laborite losers was the irrepressible George Brown, deputy party leader and former Foreign Secretary, who lost the Belper constituency he had held for 25 years. Another casualty was the tiny Liberal Party, which lost seven of its 13 seats in Parliament...
...about the greatly diminished influence of his country in the world today, but he is disturbed by the lack of dynamism and sense of purpose in Britain's national life. "We had a similar problem in the '20s and '30s," he says. "It's a question of leadership. Even Winston couldn't change the situation at that time. You must somehow be able to exert a proper influence without the stimulus of crisis. Crises only produce panic." Heath believes that if Britain does not produce more men who are willing to lead the kind of country they live in today...
SNAKES by At Young. 149 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...force is the object of the sort of adulation that was last seen 30 years ago this summer, when Winston Churchill's R.A.F. "few" fought off the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. In the Israelis' case, the few are chosen with painstaking care. Air Force Commander Mordechai Hod, 44, once said that if he picked 300 youths at random from a Tel Aviv street, no more than one would qualify for pilot training. Those who make it are rarely the hard-drinking, fast-living flyboys of fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members...