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...turned out to be not so much a program as a pogrom. A skit depicting a priest lewdly opposing contraception so offended the nation's Catholics that the BBC was forced to apologize publicly. Fortnight ago, Panelist Bernard Levin called Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home "a cretin." When Guest Panelist and onetime Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Macleod rebuked him for such "crude, vulgar words of abuse," a grinning Levin agreed to change "cretin" to "imbecile...
...This is his sixth cover for TIME. The others: André Malraux, Sigmund Freud, Alec Guinness, Adlai Stevenson and Lenin...
Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week reshuffled the shadows, and thereby accomplished two things: 1) a general face lift to prepare the party for new elections, which Sir Alec thinks likely before the end of the year, and 2) consolidation of his own grip as party chief by balancing off Reginald Maudling and Ted Heath, the most promising younger Tory leaders...
Another comer on the Tory front bench is Christopher Soames, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, who moved up from Agriculture to replace troublesome Peter Thorneycroft as shadow Defense Minister. Thorneycroft, whose wildly expensive projects for military aircraft had proved embarrassing to Sir Alec, was reassigned to shadow the Home Office, where he will have less chance to get into mischief. The irascible and erratic Quintin Hogg, who had contested Sir Alec's nomination as Prime Minister in 1963, was another casualty: he was replaced as shadow Minister of Education and Science, henceforth assigned only to undefined "special...
...suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow, 1,500 Red revolutionaries have just taken over a ten-acre mock-up of Moscow. The film is Doctor Zhivago, starring Egypt's Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson and, as Zhivago's young wife, Charlie Chaplin's 20-year-old daughter Geraldine. At $10 million, it is MGM's most free-spending spectacular since...