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...WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL SPOKE of an iron curtain descending between East and West, he was referring to both a literal and figurative barrier. A decade after the speech, the Berlin Wall had been erected, tangibly separating Europe in two. But even as Churchill put forth his image, a symbolic partition was already in place, preventing the West from getting a good, hard look at the East. That partition, "built" after the Russian Revolution in 1917, remains as sturdy today as it was during the British war hero's time...
Unfortunately, Winston Churchill, the most persuasive of the Allied leaders, loved feint and diversion. "Periphery pecking," the Americans called it, a strategy they felt wasted lives, time and matériel even as Germany rushed ahead with new weapons, including a possible atomic bomb. Churchill got his way in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, but Wedemeyer's heartland strategy was what focused Allied might in the decisive battle. To this day Wedemeyer believes that the Allies squandered a splendid opportunity by not invading in 1943. Had they occupied Europe and stopped the Soviets at their border, he says...
John Nani and Winston, Nishona, who won Tony Awards for their performances in the 1975 production of the two-man play, are currently in jail in South Africa, Glover says...
...have started such programs in the past two years: Polaroid, Deere and Xerox. A recent addition to the list is R.J. Reynolds, the largest U.S. tobacco company. In January, Reynolds offered pension benefits and a bonus of a year's salary to workers in its headquarters town of Winston-Salem, N.C., who by next year will be 55 or older and will have worked at least ten years for the company. Reynolds is concerned that its sales may drop because Congress doubled the federal excise tax on cigarettes to 16?, effective last month...
...Morgan regards the invasion of privacy as a sacred duty. The former reporter, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1961, is now noted for the objectivity of his portraits of the youthful Winston in Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry and of the aged Willie in Maugham. But they are edged with steel. Morgan, 50, feels that either love or hate is a dangerous conceit. Says he: "You have to be clinical, like a coroner dissecting a corpse." His scalpel reveals a Churchill swollen with hubris and a stingy Maugham pathologically concealing his homosexuality from the public...