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Born. To Lucy Douglas Cochrane Ceezee") Guest, 43, high society's reigning queen, and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 57, Long Island polo player, Phipps steel heir: their second child, first daughter (Guest has two grown sons from a previous marriage); in Manhattan...
...statesmen joined the chorus of commiseration. As Big Ben tolled every minute for one hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...
Dundee, a dour, slum-ridden industrial city (pop. 182,900) on Scotland's east coast, is famed for its marmalade and maverick politics. It has sent only two Tory M.P.s to Westminster in 131 years, and in 1922 threw out Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead...
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the slaying a monstrous act and said "the loss to the United States and the world is incalculable." Prime Minister Home, French President Charles de Gaulle, and Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson all expressed horror at Kennedy's assassination...
...international Communism evoke less attractive images. The General remembers the four untidy years he spent in London squabbling with British and American authorities while the French Communists fought to liberate France. Nor has he forgotten that the Americans long refused to recognize his government in exile, and that Winston Churchill quipped, "The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine...