Word: winstons
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Fifty-five years after 6,000 Harvard students watched British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receive an honorary degree in a special ceremony in Sanders Theatre, more than 10,000 Harvard students will watch as Nelson Mandela is awarded the same honor in Tercentenary Theatre Sept...
...Winston Churchill was so taken with the band in wartime that he sat in the rain with his White House host, Franklin Roosevelt, and sang the verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...liter of Pepsi, his new soft-drink sponsor. It was only fair. He won the Pepsi 400 while representing Coke. The two cola giants went wheel to wheel to roll up Gordon's endorsement, one measure of the man's crossover status as a national marketing icon. With two Winston Cup stock-car championships in the past three seasons, the California-born, Indiana-honed speed merchant is one of the hottest athletes in an even hotter sport...
Boom defines NASCAR. More than 5.8 million fans attended the 32 Winston Cup races last year, up 66% since 1990; an additional 160 million watched on five broadcast and cable-television networks. NASCAR's TV ratings regularly beat professional basketball, baseball and hockey and are second only to the NFL in major league sports. "The real value that is going up," says Brian France, grandson of NASCAR's founder Bill France and the organization's senior vice president of marketing, "is the amount of media that companies are willing to dedicate to NASCAR. Five years ago, they didn't think...
...before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square--June 5, 1989--may have impressed his image on the global memory more vividly, more intimately than even Sun Yat-sen did. Almost certainly he was seen in his moment of self-transcendence by more people than ever laid eyes on Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and James Joyce combined...