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...display of his own greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit...
DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hellraiser still lived. In a display of acting greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit...
...Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal. But in view of Indonesian President Sukarno's un relenting "Crush Malaysia" campaign, there was widespread doubt over the chances of ending the bitter four-month feud. In London, where the U.S. Attorney General stopped off en route to Washington, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home warmly thanked Kennedy for his efforts but was plainly skeptical of their success. Kennedy himself was not overoptimistic. "If the conference is not successful," he said bluntly, "everybody can go back to the jungle and shoot one another again. So nothing has been lost but two weeks of shooting...
...bitter Spectator article, Macleod charged that Sir Alec Douglas-Home was chosen to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan only because Macmillan could not bear the thought of his then-deputy, R. A. Butler, taking the reins. And Butler, argued Macleod, was "incomparably the best qualified of the contenders." When the ailing Macmillan decided to resign, he soon saw that none of his own favorites in the Cabinet had a decisive lead over Butler. Since "Macmillan was determined that Butler should not succeed him," the Prime Minister arranged an elaborate set of party soundings weighted to show that Home was everybody...
...Journalist Randolph Churchill, and thus allowed Macleod to appear only to be setting the record straight, many Britons sensed the beginnings of a new leadership battle. If the Conservatives lose to the Labor Party in the next election, one wing of the Tories might well claim that Sir Alec, as an unnaturally evolved leader, ought not to lead the party in opposition...