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...party conference, bald, stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 190 Ibs.) Iain Macleod, who had been Colonial Secretary for two years, was transferred by Prime Minister Macmillan to the key posts of party chairman and leader of the House of Commons. Though seemingly unconcerned as Tory fortunes sagged to their lowest point in more than four years, heavy-lidded Harold Macmillan can react under pressure like Mac the Knife. Pulling his switchblade, he lopped off his liabilities, pinned down his most formidable adversary, and cleared the path toward the next general election...
...North, the leading figures were just as disparate. Massachusetts' egg-bald, cockeyed Congressman Benjamin Butler in April 1860 was a Southern sympathizer and a devoted backer of Jeff Davis for President of the whole U.S.; he lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist...
East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: The famed Eugene lonesco duo, The Chairs and The Bald Soprano...
...public speech and private chat, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan had proved himself the most outspoken visiting statesman Washington had heard in years. Some found the frankness refreshing, but most diplomats were appalled at his bald attempts to downgrade India and India's Nehru in U.S. esteem...
This was before Hausner began his crossexamination. At the prosecution table, Hausner had been waiting impatiently to begin the attack, fidgeting and rubbing his bald pate red. Speaking stridently, questioning vindictively. Hausner opened with a quick barrage...