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...consumed so much of the Senate's time and attention that mo tions to deprive OEO of its major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year only, which elicited wider support - but not wide enough...
...Grim, John Ballantyne, and Winston Carmichael ran for touchdowns in the fourth quarter against dead, luckless Lafayette...
Britain's bookies had made Sir Winston Churchill the favorite at 3 to 1; Prince Charles and Princess Margaret were the second choices at 4 to 1. Not even Queen Elizabeth II (a 14 to 1 choice), who was to christen the ship, knew the name until launching day. Then, told the secret at last, the Queen stepped onto the platform at the bow of Britain's new, 58,000-ton luxury liner and proclaimed: "I name this ship Queen Elizabeth II, and may God bless all who sail...
...Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill, 26, Sir Winston's journalist grandson (The Six Day War), and Minnie d'Erlanger Churchill, 27: their third child, second daughter; in London...
...World War II drew to a close in Europe, men of vengeance and men of vision contemplated the future of Germany. There were those, like Winston Churchill, who saw both the threat of Soviet expansion into war-wasted Western Europe and the need for a revived and economically viable Germany to stand as a buffer before the Commu nist advance. And there were people like Ernest Hemingway, who recommended that all Nazis be castrated...