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BRITISH ELECTION SPECIAL (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Wilson campaign on the hustings...
Heading toward the Oct. 15 balloting, Britain's election campaign was hotting up last week-and so were the candidates, frequently egged on by hecklers. In Lancashire, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in fact, took a live egg square between the shoulder blades, and was booed down by sign-waving youths (WHO EXHUMED YOU?) in Birmingham. He got so riled trying to make himself heard in suburban London that he snapped: "I don't mind opposition, but I'm not prepared for people who won't listen...
...expert on the subtleties of British economic life when he promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec's allegation that the Labor economic program was a "menu without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens to idle Britain's whole automotive industry. He was promptly slapped with a slander suit...
...with pub, pram and payments on their proliferating cars and washing machines, the British voters continued to bask in a magnificent Indian summer, seemed interested mostly in the diversions of the campaign. The Daily Mail put on the front page a picture of a pretty makeup girl powdering Sir Alec's nose before a TV appearance, relegated what he said to page...
What with all the work involved in calling for the general election, and in officially renouncing his own peerage, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 61, neglected to register as a commoner, and won't be able to vote...