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...their soth wedding anniversary, celebrated on the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill received the attentions of an esteeming world: telegrams and letters (from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the President of the U.S.), hampers of flowers, a gallon of 119-year-old cognac, a 25-lb. chocolate cigar. The day was quiet, with a few champagne toasts on the villa terrace; but, as the New York Times editorialized, it was "still another great day in a life that has known much greatness...
CHARLOTTE (pop. 163,000), WINSTON-SALEM (pop. 120,200), GREENSBORO (pop. 120,100), prospering, industrialized, diversified-tobacco, steel structures, chemicals, textiles, electronics, insurance offices, etc.-stately, segregated, forward-looking prototype cities of the New South, Great Southeast Empire...
...second straight year in North Carolina, a handful of handpicked (for top grades, social graces) Negro schoolchildren went to classes with whites-two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro-in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina...
Heedless of acres of bikini-clad flesh, Riviera tourists paid boatmen $10 a head to ride from Monte Carlo to nearby Cap-d'Ail. The lure: a possible chance of spying vacationing Sir Winston Churchill propped up on the shore in shorts, wide-brimmed straw hat, open-necked shirt and cigar...
...brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor Bracken strongly seconded Winston Churchill's criticism of the British government's Nazi-appeasing foreign policy under Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Baldwin scored Bracken as "Winston's faithful chela" (Hindu for disciple), lived to see him rise high in the wartime government and in Churchill's confidence...