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...LAST LION, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL: VISIONS OF GLORY, 1874-1932 by William Manchester; Little, Brown; 973 pages...
Arco's surprisingly low prices are beginning to raise questions. Without mentioning the company by name, Morton Winston, the president of Tosco, an independent refiner that has run into cash problems and expects a $40 million first-quarter loss, decried Arco's practices. Said he: "The majors are selling finished products below the costs of the crude required to make them-never mind the refining costs. That is not competition, that is the use or abuse of economic power...
...cites several prominent academicians, including former Yale President Dr. Kingman Brewster, former Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
...Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, launched a rhetorical counterstrike at Reagan, accusing him of turning "Washington into a dangerous hotbed of thermonuclear confrontation." Nor is there any way to exorcise from deterrence what Reagan called "the specter of retaliation." That specter is in the nature of nuclear weapons. As Winston Churchill observed nearly three decades ago: "Safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation...
...Truman house in Independence. One batch has been collated by Indiana University Professor Robert Ferrell. It covers the first two years of Truman's courtship, when he described wrestling ornery calves, and the first year of his presidency, when he wrestled with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam conference. The most significant revelation: Truman, contrary to some speculation, was sincere in his effort to get the Soviet Union involved in fighting Japan. Among the nuggets...