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...company inherited when it was formed nine years ago by a merger of two of Britain's oldest brewers. Streamlining Watney's chain of 6,650 company-owned pubs, he shut down those serving only 100 or so regular tipplers, opened new ones in more populous areas. Crossman has also converted many pubs into "Schooner Inns," which serve $1.40 steak dinners and sell a "terrific amount of liquor...
Naturally, something had to happen to show that the barn door is still not locked. The very next night, Housing Minister Richard Crossman, an acid critic of the Vassall affair, took some work with him to dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee, he absentmindedly left behind under the table 18 sheets stamped "Confidential." At a nearby table was a Conservative businessman, Geoffrey Blundell-Brown, who gleefully retrieved the papers, read them, then called the Daily Express to lambaste the lapse. With that, Blundell-Brown returned the documents. Crossman said he was "much...
Labor leaders found solace in the fact that municipal elections do not always reflect national sentiment. Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing, noted that the government had had to do a great many "unpopular things in order to repair a long period of damage" under the Tories. Labor's austerity program had resulted in higher interest rates on loans for housing and cars, and a rise in local taxes. In view of last week's defeat, many thought that Wilson almost certainly would avoid the headlong rush into a general election that many of his supporters were proposing, instead...
Though filling his Cabinet largely with right-wingers, Wilson of course had to make room for the left. In part, it was a shrewd device that served to silence some potentially vocal critics. He put Leftist Dick Crossman in charge of Housing, well aware that he knew little about this complex subject and would be kept too busy doing his homework to have any time for intraparty politicking. The same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union...
Question of Confidence. International confidence is not helped by some of the figures around Wilson, notably "the Three Cs"-Minister of Technology Frank Cousins, Minister of Housing Richard Crossman and Minister of Overseas Development Barbara Castle-all far left-wingers. Nor is confidence helped by Labor's disturbing tendency to mix its uncertain economic measures and its contradictory morals. Wilson's government, for example, halted sales of arms and aircraft to South Africa, worth millions in hard cash, to protest against apartheid-a policy also invoked by the U.S., which perhaps can better afford it. But Labor...