Zesty as a two-year-old rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. Unlike his gelding Non-Stop, which won only second place in the races at Kempton Park on the eve of his birthday, the Old Warrior himself spent the week in top form, smiting parliamentary enemies with one hand and holding the shredded remnants of a vanished empire together with the other. He did admit that several American admirers had been sending him rejuvenating pills, but "I don't take them," he said. "Think...
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