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...WINSTON CHURCHILL 1940 The voice of Britain in its darkest and finest hour...
Apart from Beth's and Sam's individual talents and attributes, however, there are far deeper reasons for the student body to vote for a change of direction. Winston Churchill once referred to the period in the 1930s during which Britain declined to develop its military as "the years that the locusts hath eaten." Much the same could be said of the last Undergraduate Council year (and, indeed, of the last two or three years). In all the fuss over Nigeria, Burma, grapes and the transgendered, something essential has been lost: relevance...
...NASA, this is exactly the image men in space should have: Ordinary guys strapping on the tool belts, doing repair work in orbit. A seven-and-a-half-hour spacewalk ended with astronauts Winston Scott and Takao Doi manually recovering a $10 million satellite that had gone spinning out of control. With the Spartan solar observer now safely in the shuttle cargo bay, astronauts are running tests to see whether the reusable satellite can go out for another 6 to 20 hours of observation before crew members retrieve it and return to Earth. NASA TV/REUTERS...
Certainly no one at TIME objects to the passionate display of support for Ataturk. In fact, we wonder why Britons aren't doing more to help Winston Churchill, who trails Ataturk by more than half a million votes. And how about Mao, China...
Little did we know how popular our poll would become. It got off to a fast start last June, drawing some predictable nominees: Winston Churchill for Statesmen, Albert Einstein for Scientists. Since we didn't redirect the votes into appropriate categories, the proposals were not always logical; for a while, Madonna led F.D.R. for Warriors & Statesmen. That's the Internet...