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...killed in an air crash. The family title passed to Rachel MacRobert's second son, Roderic. In May 1941 Sir Roderic, a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., was killed fighting for Britain over Iraq. Less than a year later, his younger brother, R.A.F. Pilot Officer Sir Iain MacRobert, 26, was reported missing in action over the North Atlantic. Stricken Rachel MacRobert made what she called "a mother's immediate reply." Enclosing a check for ?25,000 to buy a Stirling bomber, she wrote to the Air Minister, "I have no more sons to wear the MacRobert badge...
...year later, when Sir Iain was reported definitely dead, Lady MacRobert sent another check to buy four Hurricane fighters. "The MacRoberts always fight on," she wrote, and set to work on the project of turning her house and estate into a rest home for airmen...
...committee of Britain's top cancer specialists has taken a long, hard look at the connection between smoking and lung cancer, Health Minister Iain MacLeod told Parliament last week, and has reached these conclusions...
...last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill uncorked a rare exception to the formula. As his new Minister of Health, one of the toughest jobs in the government, he appointed Iain Macleod, a wee but peppery native of the Scotch-bibbing Western Isles who is only 38 and has barely completed two years in Parliament...
Before the week was done, the wily old political warrior made known his plans to give junior cabinet rank to several backbenchers, including brainy young Iain MacLeod, who successfully argued down Nye Bevan last month, and who writes a bridge column for the Sunday Times...