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Prime Minister of Britain from 1955 to 1957, Eden served his country as Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when...
TECHNOLOGY ASSIMILATES. The Republic of Technology, ruthlessly egalitarian, will accomplish what the prophets, political philosophers and revolutionaries could not. Already it as similates times and places and peoples and things - a faithful color reproduction of the Mona Lisa, the voice and image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of Winston Churchill, or of Gandhi. You too can have a ringside seat at the World Series, at Wimbledon - or anywhere else. Without a constitutional amendment or a decision of the Supreme Court, technology forces us to equalize our experience. More than ever before, the daily experience of Americans will be created equal...
...plenty more. Cross of Iron is the story of the German retreat across Russia after Stalingrad; Dog Soldiers revolves around three Viet Nam veterans who become involved with both heroin and the CIA; and The Eagle Has Landed is a fictional account of a German attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. The towering Tory, a famous old brandy sniffer, would at least like the casting. He is portrayed by the proprietor of the Beehive, a country pub in Kent...
...Sandy Winston, who is handling Califano's press affairs, said yesterday that the announcement would "normally" be made by President-elect Carter--who can announce it whenever he chooses...
...strength has always been its ability to find oil. The company was started in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurer who somehow had wangled a concession to explore in Iran. The British government bought a 51% stake in BP in 1914 because Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wanted a secure source of oil for the navy. Known originally as Anglo-Persian, the company was renamed British Petroleum several years after the government of Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its Iranian concessions...