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...come to the promises which I have always made to you," Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week told a hushed group of Conservative M.P.s. "The first is that I would never allow disunity in the party, least of all over myself; the second, that I would tell you when I considered that the time was right to hand over the leadership to another." With that Sir Alec announced that the time had come: after 21 months and three days, first as Prime Minister and then Opposition Leader, he was relinquishing his position as the top Tory...
What the Tories cannot update is Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Whether joshing on television or jousting in Commons, the diffident, aristocratic Opposition leader is ingloriously upstaged by Wilson's wiles. Though he invariably trails the Prime Minister in national popularity polls, Home has refused to step down in favor of a more appealing candidate. For that matter, neither of his two ablest lieutenants and most likely successors-Reginald Maudling, now the Opposition's foreign policy expert, and Edward Heath, its "shadow" economics minister-has yet shown any relish for challenging the leader. The Tories, still recovering from...
...repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in the streets of Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town. The Town Meeting of the World turned international as Barry Goldwater in New York, Dean Rusk and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in London, and Maurice Schumann in Paris joined in a transatlantic gabfest. A mug shot of Canada's most wanted man, relayed by Early Bird and recognized by a televiewer in Florida, gave accused Bank Robber Georges Lemay the dubious fame of becoming the first fugitive nabbed...
Monday, May 3 If all goes well, NBC will bounce Today (7-9 a.m.) off the Comsat satellite; CBS plans a news special on Viet Nam (1-2 p.m.) featuring a transatlantic discussion between Dean Rusk, Barry Goldwater, former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart; ABC is scheduling a women's news show from London (2-3 p.m.). All three plan to incorporate Com sat into news broadcasts...
Last week Mayfield was named defendant in an industrial-espionage case bizarre enough to qualify for an Alec Guinness movie. He was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an illegal phone call and transporting stolen goods across state lines. As Government agents described events, Mayfield made a telephone call- that illegal call- to an acquaintance employed by Colgate-Palmolive, maker of Colgate toothpaste and Cue, strong competitors of Crest. He offered to sell the marketing plans to Colgate...