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...Crimson has also lost two matches this season, while winning three. Both defeats came during the Bermuda tour, however, when the team was without several of its regulars. Today's game will be its first at full strength...
...reports, spread excitedly by the New York Times, that the Pentagon was "startled." The British pointed out that their plans had been outlined to John Foster Dulles at the NATO meeting last December, further developed by Sandys on his recent trip to Washington, and discussed in general terms at Bermuda. Truth was Washington reaction was somewhat like that of an audience about to witness a death-defying leap. The acrobat says what he is going to do. The announcer says when he is going to do it. But when he actually does it, the audience gasps just the same. Similarly...
...Macmillan was plainly in trouble. Lord Salisbury, the remote and formidable Kingmaker (as the British press liked to call him), had abruptly quit the government over its freeing of Archbishop Makarios (TIME, April 8). Tory M.P.s were muttering about the "intense humiliation" Macmillan had brought on the country in Bermuda by making Britain dependent on U.S. guided missiles-minus their nuclear warheads. Within Britain itself 1,700,000 workers were still out on strike, and the pound sterling was fluttering...
Labor Trouble. At this point, Macmillan's fortune took a turn for the better and Gaitskell's for the worse. Opening the Bermuda debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan boldly seized on the left-wing Laborite cry for calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support...
...second fifteen, which included several of the Bermuda players, played a much better game. Bob Miller and captain Ben Herlihy were both outstanding, Miller and Bob Gould scoring the Crimson's two tries