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...post of Minister of Public Building and Works; Edward du Cann, also 38, who organized a spectacularly successful investment fund in his early 30s, and now becomes economic secretary to the Treasury; Nigel Fisher, 49, one of the few Tories to denounce the government's bill restricting Commonwealth immigration, who becomes parliamentary under secretary to the Colonial Office. The appointments "have made it clear," concluded the Daily Telegraph, "that there is room for brains...
Four important Cabinet ministers remained firmly in place. Edward Heath is still Lord Privy Seal in charge of Common Market negotiations; the Colonial Office has been put under the able administration of Duncan Sandys, who already heads Commonwealth Relations; and Lord Home continues as the Foreign Secretary. One surprise to outsiders was the survival of Iain Macleod as party chairman because he is widely blamed for the Tories' repeated defeats. Macmillan feels that this criticism is unfair, that Macleod deserves more time to show what...
...Maine hunting lodge." The second of their five children was Ceezee- christened Lucy Douglas Cochrane. Cochrane died in 1928, and in 1930 Vivian married another rich, blue-blooded Boston bachelor. Attorney Dudley L. Pickman Jr. He moved the whole family into a big granite Stanford White mansion on Commonwealth Avenue, with 40 rooms (five servants), where Ceezee grew up and the Pickmans still live...
...Paris on Commonwealth Avenue. Ceezee took to school like a cat to water; she could get through it, but would much rather not. Her report cards indicate that as a ten-year-old she was inclined to be noisy and inattentive. She "needs to be very busy or she will gain superficial social superiority," was the comment on one of them, adding that "at heart she is kindly." Ceezee ended her academic career at Fermata, a very social, now defunct girls' school at Aiken, S.C., where she did best at French and Latin, worst at cooking and sewing...
Since Australia was settled 180 years ago, the mainstay of its economy has always been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest...