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...Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept." "Good old Winnie!" shouted the crowd at Downing Street once again when Churchill returned. The old man smiled through tear-dimmed eyes, raised his fingers in the victory sign and went inside. Soon afterward the street was nearly empty once again. That evening Churchill came out of the house once more, climbed into his car and drove to his doctor's for a checkup...
...fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture just to make sure that a fellow scientist read a paper about "rotten and decadent Western pseudoscience" exactly as it had been okayed. Suddenly Borodin balked and left the hall, pretending to be ill. Shortly afterward, in August 1948, acting from"instinctive self-preservation," Borodin renounced his Soviet citizenship and changed his name. According to his publishers, he now works in England in a job "where his scientific knowledge is in full...
...president's business faults, portraying him as a penny-pinching worrier about small details, an employer who refused to delegate authority to his staff, an indecisive person who would not let underlings make decisions. "It's an afternoon I'll never forget," the company president said afterward. "Never before have I paid out so much to feel so miserable...
Harold Rea's surprise ending to his true story made it Topic A in Toronto business circles for days afterward: "The company I have been talking about is my own company. The chief executive I have been talking about was your speaker...
...useless, but at the same time, I think we have reached a point where we could try." The Senator's remarks set off a whirl in Washington. California's Republican Senator William Knowland, always suspicious of any overtures to the Communists, promptly asked President Eisenhower his views. Afterward, on the front steps of the White House, he announced that the George suggestion is "not the viewpoint of the Government at the present time." While reporters were absorbing Know-land's statement, a State Department spokesman said that George's proposal was "in harmony with the position...