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...Grandpa Winston used to hobnob with the high and mighty at No. 10 Downing Street, but Granddaughter Arabella Churchill seems to prefer less lofty companionship. After a two-year stint of fund raising for leper colonies and another two years breeding sheep in Wales, she has now moved into an abandoned slum building in West London and opened a low-priced restaurant for some 200 fellow squatters and other neighborhood residents. "I've always wanted to do something like this," says Arabella, 27. "We don't want to make a profit. We just want to give good meals...
...former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke out on day-to-day political affairs last week. In a television interview, he called for "a government of national unity" to lead the country through its latest economic crisis. Macmillan, now 82, recalled the wartime coalition of parties under Winston Churchill. Such a government, the former Tory leader argued, would have enough popular support to take the tough measures necessary to stave off economic collapse. Macmillan declined to name any prospective leader for such a government, but, he added, "somebody will come along, of course...
...Jets have shown as much stability as a toupee in high wind. Things got so bad that owner Phil Iselin suffered a heart attack watching Denver trounce his club. The Jets were even euphoric after holding the Colts to only 20 points while former all-pro guard Winston Hill benched himself, missing his first starting assignment since...
...South African play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead was presented in Umtata, Matanzima was furious at its barbed references to the Transkei's independence as meaningless. Though the play has been hailed both in the U.S. and Britain, Matanzima closed it down and jailed Xhosa Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who appeared in it on Broadway last year) on the grounds that the play was "highly inflammatory, abusive and vulgar...
...Three publishing houses-Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Popular Library and W.B. Saunders -and 25 magazines, including Field & Stream, World Tennis and Road & Track. The division also has negotiated to buy Fawcett Publications...