Word: winstone
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...LAST LION, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL: VISIONS OF GLORY, 1874-1932 by William Manchester; Little, Brown; 973 pages...
...when he was 30, Winston Churchill had already accomplished more than most men do in a lifetime. He added luster to the family name in the Caribbean as a daredevil correspondent covering the Cuban insurrection. At Omdurman, he rode in the British army's last great cavalry charge during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan. He became a national hero by escaping from his Boer captors in South Africa in 1899. The following year he was prepared to greet the new century as a Member of Parliament, a novelist and traveling lecturer. In America, Mark Twain presented...
...France he and [his secretary] Eddie Marsh were driving to his chateau in a Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave a wrong direction, left instead of right, at a crossroad.' The chauffeur protested, Churchill abruptly put him in his place, 'and on we went in the dark, on and on literally for kilometres between the close hedges of the roadside ...' Churchill accepted none of the blame...
Arco's surprisingly low prices are beginning to raise questions. Without mentioning the company by name, Morton Winston, the president of Tosco, an independent refiner that has run into cash problems and expects a $40 million first-quarter loss, decried Arco's practices. Said he: "The majors are selling finished products below the costs of the crude required to make them-never mind the refining costs. That is not competition, that is the use or abuse of economic power...
...cites several prominent academicians, including former Yale President Dr. Kingman Brewster, former Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...