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This conjured up shades of the hapless former Cabinet Minister, memories of that high-echelon prostitute, Christine Keeler, echoes of the whole scandal that had so sorely embarrassed the Tories a year ago. "Profumo!" Hogg replied angrily. "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labor Party, you can talk about Profumo. If you can't tell me that, you had better keep your mouth shut...
...Benched Adulterers. Since the Labor front bench is generally occupied by members of Labor's "shadow cabinet," all of them well known to each other, to their colleagues and the country, the statement was uncomfortably close to a specific accusation. Labor Chief Harold Wilson, who had ordered that the Profumo scandal not be raised by party leaders on the assumption that it might boomerang, gleefully picked up his cue and called on Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to repudiate Hogg. Next day Hogg made a partial and grudging retraction. But he thought it was all most unfair, since...
British elections are still contests between parties, not just between the two leading candidates. But it is to Labour's advantage to show off Wilson--who in 1946 became the youngest Cabinet minister since William Pitt--and to play down the relatively untested Labour Front Bench. The Americanization of British politics has proceeded to such a point, then, that an unwary observer might conclude that Harold Wilson is standing for some national office, rather than for reelection in his constituency of Huyton, a suburb of Liverpool...
...brought responses which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...work of a Supreme Court Justice is so intellectually demanding, that when Potter Stewart arrived from a grueling enough U.S. appeals court in 1958, his first reaction was, "I can't do this." In 1962, after only five years on the bench, the strain forced Justice Charles Whittaker to retire, leaving the field to rugged ex-Football Star Byron White. Though the Court has overruled itself about 150 times, the big headache remains the search for principles that lower courts can follow as long as possible. Yet a Justice charged with being the final authority on issues as combustible...