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...Great Man Act by flashing V. signs to the press at St. Tropes, he saw The Guns of Nevarone and, apparently impressed by Gregory Peek's shenanigans, summoned its writes producer Carl Foreman. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided. Foreman's script of Young Winston is loosely based on Churchill's My Early Life, which in turn is loosely based on the author's career until age twenty-eight...
...with the lead-soldier shenanigans of Navarone, Winston Churchill summoned its writer-producer Carl Foreman, talked with him about the movie, and about such previous Foreman scripts as The Bridge on the River Kwai. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided...
Born. To Senator Strom Thurmond, 69, South Carolina's maverick senior statesman (and most prominent physical fitness fanatic), who bolted the Democrats and became a Republican, and Nancy Thurmond, 25, Miss South Carolina of 1966: their second child, first son; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: James Strom Thurmond...
Early Vote. The election is also a highly personal contest between two strikingly different men. On the one side is Willy Brandt, 58, the popular, outgoing Chancellor, who comes over on television as "our Willy"-and a statesman besides. He set in motion a whole movement toward détente in Europe, with his innovative Ostpolitik. If the election were merely a popularity contest or a plebiscite on foreign policy, Brandt would win handily...
...said, because he was "busy commanding the armed forces." As for extending the deadline, he denied that he had ever promised to do so. "I continue to believe, until proved wrong," said Mobutu generously in Kinshasa, "that in Kampala I had talks with a real, conscientious and honest statesman. I would be very disappointed if the facts should prove the contrary." Late last week, however, Amin sent U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a message saying that the Asians would be allowed to keep their possessions and would not be mistreated if they did not meet the deadline...