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...TIME'S belief that Sergeant York was the only hero to emerge from World War I [June 24] is unfortunate. Haven't you overlooked T. E. Lawrence, whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest beings alive in our time...
Hershey's defense of the existing system thus resembled Winston Churchill's assessment of democracy: "The worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried." This week the Pentagon is to release the results of a long-awaited study on the draft and the nation's manpower problems ordered by President Johnson two years ago. Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that when major provisions of the present draft law expire on June 30, 1967, Congress will adopt any radically different system to replace...
...first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote, "I never...
Escape. The Senator?as Marion always refers to him?bleeds only on those rare, agonizing occasions when he is caught without book, paper or audience. Even while accompanying Son Josh to a baseball game, Javits surreptitiously scans the briefcase in his lap. His hard-cover reading currently includes Winston Churchill's The Second World War and Andre Maurois' Disraeli ?books that, for him, come close to escapism...
...interview program. One questioner charged that his emotional oratory had the same kind of hypnotic effect on a mass audience as had Hitler's; another railed at the "sanctified lies" of his campaign team and the "engineered emotion" of his crusades. Coolly, Billy replied that Winston Churchill had also used all the tricks of popular oratory. "Jesus Christ himself, and the Apostle Paul, talked to great crowds of people," he added...