Word: crustier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert, editor and writer, Macleod had an immense breadth of experience. In previous Tory governments he had served as Minister of Health and of Labor, and, as Colonial Secretary in the early 1960s, had helped one African colony after another to independence. Macleod was too radical to suit the crustier members of his party and was bypassed as Tory leader in 1963, yet he was all but irreplaceable. To succeed him, Heath appointed Anthony Barber, 50, Chairman of the Tory Party since 1967 and current top British negotiator with the Common Market...