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Indeed, everything seemed calculated last week to upstage the Tories' new leader in his debut as party chief. As the Conservatives gathered at Brighton for their annual conference, the headlines were dominated by the Rhodesian crisis. And when Wilson flew up to Balmoral to see the Queen, the blood froze in Tory veins: with a mere two-vote majority and the opinion polls rapidly swinging his way, Wilson might well be asking permission to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Not so, or at least not yet. But the reaction in Brighton all too clearly revealed the Tories...
...With mayoress of Brighton after conference session...
...Knowing that Labor's work stoppages, coupled with wage gains running an inflationary 6.3% so far this year, threaten not only the precarious stability of sterling but also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting in Brighton this week, agree to voluntary controls in tune with his impending income-regulating legislation. His alternative: use of compulsory government controls in the bill, due in the next session of Parliament...
...delegates to Brighton, representing nearly 9,000,000 union members, it was an odious choice. But in the end, Wilson's urging carried the day by a margin of 2,000,000 votes: local unions bound themselves to submit in advance all demands for wage increases to the T.U.C.'s General Council, not to press them on management until-and unless-the T.U.C. approved the wage claims as within the government's anti-inflationary guidelines. The margin was thanks largely to T.U.C. General Secretary George Woodcock's plea that Wilson's demand was the lesser...
...speech on "The New Morality" at the Catholic Student Center, the Rev. James O'Donohoe, professor of Moral Theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton and a writer for the Clergy Review, criticized the "old law-centered moarl theology that leads to prefabricated decisions, the 'Here's the solution; what's your problem?' approach...