Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the government intended to review Britain's companies act to see whether regulations against speculative operations such as Jasper's should be tightened. Exuberantly, Hugh Gaitskell compared Britain's mood to that of 1945, when Labor's Clement Attlee scored an upset victory over Winston Churchill. And from the marginal constituencies, one Labor campaigner after another reported that if it were not for the polls, which still showed a strong though diminished Tory lead, he would predict a Labor victory...
...passing from the Labourite campaign vocabulary. Unfortunately, however, the Labour Party is committed to renationalizing steel and road haulage, even though this policy is now a recognized liability. On this, as on many issues, there is a sharp division between the doctrinaire socialists and the moderates. As Sir Winston Churchill, again a candidate for Parliament, observed recently, "Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk...
...Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis fortunes attracted the famous. Aboard his yacht Christina IV during the summer's fateful Mediterranean cruise were, in addition to the Meneghinis, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and assorted Riviera bluebloods...
...following evening, in an occasion that outshone even Macmillan's TV show, the President invited 28 of his old comrades of World War II and other friends to a stag banquet at the U.S. embassy residence in London. There was Sir Winston Churchill, still game, who had flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where...
Stifled Yawn. Greta Garbo slipped into a royal blue bikini and plunged into the Mediterranean from her Cap d'Ail villa. Sir Winston Churchill and Maria Callas, the prima of prima donnas, cruised offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl...