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发表于 2016-7-9 23:20:12 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  January 24
          Sir Winston led Britain to victory in World War II
          1965: Winston Churchill dies
          England have
          Sir Winston Churchill has died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady
Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside.
          He suffered a stroke 15 days ago and gradually slipped into a deep sleep
from which he never awakened.
          Sir Winston died in his London home at Hyde Park Gate. Earlier in his
illness, there had been crowds anxiously waiting for news at the top of the
quiet Kensington cul-de-sac - but when the announcement finally came there was
only a handful of journalists in the street.
          News of his death was announced on the BBC shortly after 0800 GMT. Within
half-an-hour, crowds began to gather near his home to pay homage to Britain"s
greatest wartime leader.
          When Sir Winston fell ill, he was visited by one of the country"s leading
neurologists, Lord Brain, who advised on his treatment.
          Since then, regular medical bulletins have been issued by Sir Winston"s own
doctor, Lord Moran.
          Sir Winston has spent the past few days lying in the downstairs room he
converted to a bedroom after a fall four years ago in which he injured his
back.
          Members of the family were summoned to his bedside at 0700 GMT. Lady
Churchill and the couple"s eldest surviving daughter, Mary Soames, have been
with him throughout his illness.
          Their son, Randolph Churchill was seen arriving with his son, Winston. Soon
after, Sir Winston"s actress daughter, Lady Sarah Audley, looking pale and
drawn, arrived with her daughter, Celia Sandys.
          Many television and radio programmes have been cancelled or re-scheduled to
make way for tributes to Sir Winston.
          Sir Winston will lie in state in Westminster Hall - an honour not accorded
any English statesman since Gladstone in 1898. His body will remain there for
three days, before the funeral at St Paul"s cathedral on Saturday.
          The scene of the Air India crash near the summit of Mont Blanc
          1966: 117 die in Air India tragedy
          Artificially 1969:
          The Up to 117 people have been killed after an Air India Boeing 707 crashed
near the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps.
          The plane was on a regular Bombay to New York flight when the accident
happened at around 0800 local time.
          All 106 passengers and 11 crew were killed on the aircraft as it prepared
to land at Geneva airport in Switzerland.
          Most of the dead were Indian nationals, 46 of whom were sailors. Six were
British.
          Rescue teams found wreckage scattered on the south-west side of the
mountain, about 1,400ft (427 metres) below the summit.
          Gerard Devoussoux, a mountain guide who was one of the first to arrive at
the disaster scene, said: "Another 15 metres (50ft) and the plane would have
missed the rock. It made a huge crater in the mountain.
          "Everything was completely pulverised. Nothing was identifiable except for
a few letters and packets."
          French authorities radioed back the news that there was virtually no hope
of survivors shortly after landing in the area.
          The search was eventually called off after bad weather and poor visibility
hampered rescue efforts.
          Relatives of the passengers involved in the disaster were in tears after
airport officials broke the news of the crash.
          Robert Bruce, from Tooting, who was waiting for his parents to arrive,
said: "I am so choked I cannot even cry. I will just go home and collapse.
          "As far as I am concerned my world has come to an end."
          The cause of the crash is not yet known and it is expected to take several
days before all of the bodies are recovered.
          The plane was a few minutes behind schedule as it was preparing to make its
descent.
          But the captain of the Air India Boeing 707, who was one of the airline"s
most experienced pilots, had radioed the control tower a few minutes earlier to
report that his instruments were working fine and the aircraft was flying at
19,000ft (5,791 metres) - at least 3,000ft (514 metres) higher than the Mont
Blanc summit.
          Shortly after, the plane crashed into the mountain.
          Sixteen years ago an Air India Constellation crashed near the same spot,
killing 48 passengers.
          Vocabulary:
          homage : respectful deference(敬意)(实习编辑:夏根建)
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