Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Heath tried to generate some favorable publicity by going sailing in his yacht, he ran it aground. When reporters asked about the attractive woman he had taken along, Heath, who is Britain's first bachelor Prime Minister since Arthur Balfour in 1902, archly dismissed questions of a possible romance. "Absolute nonsense," said Heath. "She's a friend of the navigator's." When photographers asked him to pose drinking beer with the boys in the pub, Heath replied: "No, thanks. I've got whisky in the plane." Journalists found his electioneering style dreary compared with Wilson. "Covering Heath," complained...
Wilson himself is Labor's strongest asset. With his wit, unflappability and easy manner with voters in pubs as well as on podiums, the perpetually pipe-smoking Wilson, 54, stands in strong contrast to Heath, 53, a somewhat starchy bachelor with an uneven, often irritable manner. Opinion polls reflect Labor's edge. At week's end Labor led by as much as 5.5%, which would translate into about a 60-seat majority in the House of Commons...
...anonymous scientist, who is a bachelor, had been living and working for weeks at a time on a remote island; no women were on hand to distract him. In these monastic circumstances, he soon noticed an intriguing phenomenon: his beard was growing less rapidly than normal. Furthermore, on the day before each of his periodic returns to the mainland and reunions with a receptive female (also unidentified), his facial hair began to sprout at a prodigious rate. The implications were staggering. Could the mere thought of sex stimulate a darker 5 o'clock shadow...
...reason for this phenomenon is apparently rooted in hormonal activities. Facial hair, a secondary male sexual characteristic, is largely governed by production of male hormones called androgens. Indeed, one of these compounds -testosterone-is known to be secreted by the testicles in greater quantities during intercourse. The bachelor scientist's experiment suggests that there is a release of androgens even with the anticipation of sex. "Even the presence of particular female company in the absence of intercourse, after a period of separation, usually caused an obvious increase in beard growth." As a byproduct of his research, the scientist also...
...idea was to whip up some frontpage glamour for Conservative Party Chief Ted Heath, whose poll ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...