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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...
...recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many...
...steady users. "The biggest problem with doing this stuff is boredom," says Attorney Robert Gelfman, 54, who pedals a bike in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home three or four times a week. His solution: placing a book on an adjacent music stand. Says Gelfman: "I've gotten through all the Winston Churchill volumes on the Second World War, and I just finished the Jane Austen novels...