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...dearth of grand leaders on the world stage? Largely it is because of the absence of grand challenges, or at least of the clear good-vs.-evil challenges that can rally a people and call forth bold leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...
Soon after her return to London at 19, she was telephoned by Winston Churchill's son Randolph, who asked her on a blind date. "What do you look like?" he inquired, none too gallantly. "Redheaded and rather fat, but Mummy says that puppy fat disappears." Two weeks and three dates later, they decided to get married...
...ever look in the mirror and ask herself if this was all a dream? "No. It sounds ridiculous now, but then it was natural." Her marriage to Randolph, a noted drinker and gambler, broke up in 1945 (the couple had one son, Winston, now in the House of Commons), and Pamela moved to France...
...programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated for an Administration...
Shilts refutes the assertion with some vivid reporting. He digs up a long- buried Navy study that found no correlation between sexual behavior and job performance. Winston Churchill's era of "rum, sodomy and the lash" has given way to unofficial evenings in gay on-board clubs, special newsletters, travel guides and lubricants formulated in ships' pharmacies...