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...pressing than what to do about integration or support for the missions. In Houston, 40 of the city's 187 Baptist churches have changed pastors during the past year, and about 10% of the 1,500 Congregational churches in New England are now without a fulltime minister. In Winston-Salem, N.C., the First Presbyterian Church spent 13 months looking for the right man; one committeeman traveled 12,000 miles on scouting expeditions...
Thus last week the son of Winston Churchill propelled himself past yet another turning in his tempestuous journalistic career. The cause seemed trivial, but then, Randolph Churchill has habitually splintered his freelance over trifles. And anyway, it was only a matter of time until the News of the World joined the long list of newspapers where Churchill had previously found working conditions intolerable...
Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London...
...then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule need no longer keep talented men out of the Commons, thanks to a bill passed last summer that enables any "reluctant peer" to renounce his titles for life if he wishes.* The 14th Earl of Home will soon be legally...
Home's profound skepticism of Soviet policy led him to challenge Winston Churchill when the Prime Minister praised as an "act of justice" Stalin's promise to respect Poland's borders after the war. "On the contrary," said Home, it was "an act of power," and he was soon proved right. Home constantly reiterated that unless the government grasped the fact that "this country and Russia operate under two different sets of standards, there will stretch before us a long vista of political difficulties, misunderstandings and disillusions...