Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. Before McHale could get it to press, the interview was being broadcast four times daily over the government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom had been in Iraq for more than 18 days on this visit: "You have been here long enough." As he packed up hurriedly for the trip back to his base...
Appearing thin and weary, Dulles nonetheless waved off Ike's offer of a place on a sofa-"No, no, no"-and sat on a chair while the group posed for photographs under an Eisenhower oil portrait of Winston Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must...
...Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
...better than war, war," Sir Winston Churchill once said. This maxim last week guided one of his successors in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, as well as the crowd that welcomed Macmillan home from his unsuccessful mission to Moscow...
...Jungle and Charlie Chan, but if he ever came back to television, said Gordon, "it would be to make something good." This week Lawyer Gordon, 49, is back from meditation and ready to do just that. His new producing organization, Galaxy Attractions, Inc., is preparing to dramatize Sir Winston Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples on film, present it in a series of hour-long broadcasts with Sir Laurence Olivier as narrator and, for background music, an original score by Sir William Walton. "Sir Winston's history," said Entrepreneur Gordon with all due modesty, "will...