Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspectors found it "much decayed, the Floors & Chimneys much sunk." In 1781 the Board of Works bluntly called it "dangerous." In 1832, the year of the great Reform Bill, Earl Grey had to move out of it because it had become uninhabitable, and even Winston Churchill, no man to take a British institution lightly, found it "shaky." Last week, in a special White Paper, Her Majesty's government announced that No. 10 is in worse shape than ever...
...Gaulle last week offered the Cross of the Order of the Liberation to his old wartime sparring partner, Sir Winston Churchill. The order is held by only two heads of state-Morocco's Mohammed V and Dwight Eisenhower...
...midst of a top-hole week-in which a family history, The Churchills, by Historian A. L. Rowse (TIME. May 12), drew critical tribute from British reviewers, and France offered him a high decoration (see FOREIGN NEWS)-Elder (83) Statesman Sir Winston Churchill, with cigar, cane and topper, plunked down in the middle of the Ascot paddock to keep an eye on his Tudor Monarch in the $30,660 Gold Cup. Souring the big day, horse failed man as Tudor Monarch finished fourth behind the American-owned, Irish-trained mare Gladness...
...Crusade in Europe, General Eisenhower noted: "I personally liked General de Gaulle, as I recognized in him many fine qualities. We felt, however, that these qualities were marred by hypersensitiveness and an extraordinary stubbornness in matters which appeared inconsequential to us." But throughout the war, Eisenhower agreed with Winston Churchill that De Gaulle, for all his troublesome drawbacks, had not only personal but national attributes as the indomitable spirit of French resistance and French honor...
Both Landau and Gordon will go to Berkley for the NCAA tournament June 13-14 at the University of California. There Landau will meet the best in collegiate hurdling, including Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem, and Glenn Davis of Ohio State, the Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion. Gilbert last week broke the world's record in the 440-yard dash...