Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of it is oft-rehashed history-that moment late in 1940 when the outmanned Royal Air Force took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and changed the course of World War II. But Townsend, himself a hero of the battle, approaches the duel of eagles not as history but as a personal, crotchety reminiscence of the participants...
DUEL OF EAGLES by Peter Townsend. 480 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...heart of the little Princess and then failed to win her hand. That is how the world remembers him: an unsuccessful suitor, elegant and somehow attenuated. Fifteen years later, exGroup Captain and Royal Equerry Peter Townsend finds a role more comfortable for a dashing fighter pilot as the author of a real-life adventure yarn...
...Federal Reserve Board thus narrowly averted a liquidity crisis-but not without a few tense moments. Some financially embarrassed companies had trouble refinancing their commercial paper. In one case, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend flew to Manhattan and arranged a $400 million increase in the company's line of credit from a group of banks. Many other cash-hungry companies were not so fortunate. Business failures in 1970 rose to a three-year peak of about 10,000, and the sums of money involved reached an alltime high...
...MARGIE TOWNSEND Shreveport...