Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walesa spent a year writing the book, which has sparked a heated publishing dispute. The manuscript was smuggled from Poland to the French publisher Editions Fayard after the New York City-based firm of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, which had initiated the project, asked for extensive revisions. The book, explained a Holt editor, lacked the "authentic voice" of Walesa. That did not stop Fayard, which translated the text into French and secreted it back to Walesa and his aides for approval. So far, Warsaw officials have not commented on the book, which is certain to burn up Poland's underground publishing...
...Expect the unexpected," Principal Winston Davis warned the 700 students in Knoxville's Fulton High School auditorium last week. As the assembly settled into an eye-glazing film on the high school's construction, six warriors in camouflage gear suddenly mounted a platform near the stage and began firing their M-16s. The youngsters screamed and scrambled for cover. But the gunplay ended almost immediately, and Sergeant Major Bob Gregory of the Tennessee Army National Guard informed the students that the soldiers were shooting blanks. "This was just a scenario," said he. "It's not for real...
...Bell, the manufacturer of Wrangler jeans, shut down its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters after the company was acquired by VF Corp. That put 300 people out of work and meant the end of Blue Bell's strong support of Greensboro's arts and civic activities. Thirty miles to the west, Winston-Salem was dealt a similar blow after R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985. Last month RJR Nabisco announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, taking along not only some 250 jobs but the considerable corporate prestige and financial largesse that Reynolds had showered...
Macmillan had first been elected to the House of Commons in 1924. During World War II, Winston Churchill dispatched him to North Africa as Minister- Resident at Dwight Eisenhower's Allied headquarters. In the 1950s he held a succession of Cabinet positions, including Minister of Defense, Foreign Secretary, and, just before going to 10 Downing Street, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Iran's Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shahansha (1968), Germany's Helmut Schmidt (1979), Spain's King Juan Carlos (1984), and Sweden's Gustav Adolf (1938), Winston Churchill...