Word: winstone
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...Winston Lord, who helped Kissinger engineer the original opening to China and who continues to follow the relationship closely as president of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, says that there will probably be "no real rapprochement" between China and the Soviet Union. Nor is China's willingness to resume negotiations "a crude playing of the Soviet card to make us nervous." Says Lord: "The Chinese are modestly repositioning themselves and hedging while they see whether the U.S. can get its own act together...
...Sailing is one of the few sports you can come into knowing absolutely nothing about it," explains Winston Tedd adding that though he capsized on his first day out with the team, he was racing regularly by mid-season...
Doris Lessing: There hasn't been a woman since Nelly Sachs shared the loot with Agnon in '66' There hasn't been a Brit since, catch this. Sir Winston Churchill of the "Narrzi Beast" fame won it is '53, A couple of things have Doris on the rocks, 1, The Times ran a story in its magazine on here during the summer. That's more a kiss of death than appearing on the cover of SI. 2, Leasing's latest books are sci-fi, and it the committee wants that, well they just ought to was till my man Isaac...
DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap...
...execute an invasion if necessary, made the difference. American nuclear superiority was not in our view a critical factor, for the fundamental and controlling reason that nuclear war, already in 1962, would have been an unexampled catastrophe for both sides; the balance of terror so eloquently described by Winston Churchill seven years earlier was in full operation. No one of us ever reviewed the nuclear balance for comfort in those hard weeks. The Cuban missile crisis illustrates not the significance but the insignificance of nuclear superiority in the face of survivable thermonuclear retaliatory forces. It also shows the crucial role...