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...made her the perfect foil for his tempestuous outbursts and black depressions. The mother of five (only two survive: Actress Sarah Churchill and Mary Soames, wife of Diplomat Christopher Soames), she accompanied her husband on wartime missions abroad, even on late-night inspections of London during the blitz. Last February, to meet expenses, she began selling off family heirlooms and Sir Winston's paintings, but rejected any offer of public assistance...
...media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping high school coaches, asked his mother his favorite dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed...
...Center for Study of Responsive Law, the original flagship Nader organization. It produced a blitz of study-group reports in the early 1970s that exposed abuses in dozens of fields, from chemical products to environmental pollution. The center is now a backwater, dealing with lesser issues...
...YEARS AGO: Cambridge, Nov. 19 1927. The Elis came through in Coach Tad Jones's last game to blitz Harvard...
...National Energy Plan." But as Carter's attention drifted to other subjects, the books gathered dust on secretarial shelves. No more. The energy program is in real trouble in Congress, and General Jimmy has ordered his troops to hit those blue books -and the road-in a final blitz to win the energy...