Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center for two of the three networks but an estimated $12 million-a- year loser for CBS. From Charles Kuralt through Maria Shriver and Forrest Sawyer, the network has tried countless hosts and formats in an effort to boost the Morning News audience. In May CBS brought in Susan Winston, the former producer of ABC's Good Morning America, to come up with an entirely new format for the show. Her ideas for a city-hopping program with multiple hosts (among the names proposed: Frank Gifford, Connie Chung and Linda Ellerbee) were first received enthusiastically but later rejected. Winston quit...
...continues to question his identity and religion. But he also professes to have tempered his desire to make it to the White House--a desire that dates from his discovery of John F. Kennedy at age 8. One current career ideal is to be an intellectual/politician in the Winston Churchill/Daniel Patrick Moynihan mode...
London Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman responded by seeking an additional 3,000 officers. A row on the subject has even erupted in the House of Commons, where Tory Backbencher Winston Churchill wants to ban violence and sex on television. Says Dr. Gillian Mezey, who has studied rape in London's riot-torn Brixton neighborhood: "In places like Brixton, where there are no jobs and terrible housing, women are just easy targets of aggression...
...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill paid that celebrated tribute to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who won the 48-day Battle of Britain in 1940, thus thwarting plans for a Nazi invasion of England. The backbone of the R.A.F. was the agile Spitfire, the speedy (364 m.p.h.), quick-turning, British-built fighter plane that literally flew circles around enemy aircraft...
...Houston won Texas' independence from Mexico. He also walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome, he will not be around for the high point of the yearlong, $130 million observance. That comes March 2, Texas Independence Day, more important...