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...Hope for Fall. Three hours before the polls closed in London, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ended months of suspense about the timing of the elections. He announced that the present Parliament, already the longest in peacetime since Queen Victoria, will not be dissolved until fall. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson explained the delay with deadly brevity: "It is now quite clear why Sir Alec did not go to the country in June. I think he realized he had no chance...
...DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that even vast quantities of liquor cannot kill...
...doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving like extras and movie stars all dressed up to face posterity in spanking new tunics, togas and armor. Among the luminaries are Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason and Omar Sharif...
...DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that liquor cannot kill...
Though shaken, Heath and the other Tory leaders refused to abandon the bill. Prospects now are that the impending general election will not be held until the last possible moment in the fall, not only to give Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home the maximum national exposure but to allow the new breach in the party to heal...