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When Iain Macleod rose at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton to report for the last time as Colonial Secretary, and when he affirmed his belief in the brotherhood of man, he was warmly applauded, because he had been promoted, because he is popular, and because the delegates knew that he had served radically but well. It was not until that afternoon that the vague notes of faint discord that were to characterize the rest of the conference first made themselves heard...
...their annual conference at Brighton last week, the Tories debated their future. During the speeches and the votes, the man who will have most to do with that future sat silently on the sidelines. But little escaped his clinical blue eyes and card-index memory, and this week Iain Norman Macleod, 47, goes into action as new chairman of the Conservative Party, bringing with him the kind of dynamism that wins elections...
...earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety-boo, as vacationers crowded the beaches from Brighton to Belfast...
...redbricks are so besieged that they can accept only one out of seven applicants. Desperately, they are building airy glass-and-steel buildings without a single red brick-centers for chemistry at Leicester and Birmingham, for physics at Hull, for engineering at Liverpool. Entire new universities are due in Brighton, York and Norwich; four more are on paper from Coventry to Canterbury. Last week, Lancashire joined the queue of counties that want their own universities...
...weakened but determined University Senior enters the sixth day of his hunger strike today in protest against the imprisonment of Mrs. Olgs Ivinskaya, an intimate friend of the late Boris Pasternak. Yesterday, Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 of Dudley House and Brighton, described his ordeal as "not too terribly difficult...