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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The unhappy, harum-scarum Victorian upbringing of the greatest public figure of his age, written with compassion and restraint by his only son. Four more volumes are projected...
...freeze" on wage and price increases. The main aim was to make Britain more competitive overseas by reducing consumption and costs, while raising exports and investment for industrial modernization. At the start, the government said that beginning Jan. 1, the freeze would thaw into a mere matter of "severe restraint." Most Britons took the freeze with stiff upper lip, but they also looked forward to New Year's Day, by which time business as usual-or almost as usual-could be resumed...
...administration's short-sighted use of outside police is not of itself an argument for a blanket rule against such use. A situation could arise when even an enlarged campus police force would be inadequate. the best solution, then would be a clear statement by Chancellor Heyns that more restraint will be exercised in the future, that state and city police will no longer be brought in unless serious danger is posed to life, limb or property...
...ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession to do so since World War II-its air is filled with a sense of restraint and nostalgia not usually associated with independence celebrations...
...went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights demonstrations, was elected sheriff over Incumbent Jim Clark, whose brutal treatment of Negroes shocked the nation...