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...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...government turned once again to Churchill. He occupied his old desk at the Admiralty, and the message flashed to Royal Navy ships around the world: WINSTON is BACK. As the Nazi tide rolled toward Britain's shores, Parliament finally turned Chamberlain out. In May 1940, King George VI asked Churchill to form the new government. In his first address as Prime Minister, Churchill told the House of Commons...
...poke its head under the tent. School districts receiving federal money would buy textbooks and scientific equipment for underprivileged children in public and parochial schools alike, unless this is specifically banned by state law. As many as 90% of the nation's school districts might benefit, although Title VI of the Civil Rights Act would exclude any segregated school system...
...above). Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe himself stayed away-largely at the urging of the U.S., which did not want the U.N. debate complicated further by Tshombe's presence, which would inevitably antagonize the other Africans. Instead, Tshombe flew into Rome for a 20-minute audience with Pope Paul VI, was greeted by turbulent Red-led riots and rotten eggs. He had better luck in conversations with Italian officials and businessmen, who seemed ready to expand trade with the Congo. "The Congo will soon know peace," he predicted with his unquenchably optimistic grin. "But a durable peace cannot be achieved...
...U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land for the landless," given a medal by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan from Pope Paul VI; Sculptor Alexander Colder, 66, Critic Malcolm Cowley, 66, and Poet Allen Tote, 65, named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; John N. Heiskell, 92, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette, winner of Arizona University's John Peter Zenger Award for his support of integration in the 1957 Little...