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Using his new signature for the first time, Britain's Prime Minister attached his name and family seal to a document renouncing six ancient peerages. Thus, less than a week after taking office, the 14th Earl of Home became Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, commoner, and so qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
...walking horse the first time he rode to hounds. Home still follows his other boyhood pursuits: bird watching, butterfly collecting, flower arranging, piano playing. Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie ?2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as much will...
...where his headmaster described him as the most unambitious boy he had ever encountered, Home went to Oxford's aristocratic Christ Church,* where he scraped by with a third in history. He was interested in the family's "political blood"-Britain's great reforming Prime Minister Earl Grey was his paternal great-grandfather -and was elected to Parliament in 1931 from the depressed mining district of South Lanark. "It seemed rather stodgy just to stay at home and live on your money and look after your estates," he explains. "It would have been a lot better...
...question that Britons will answer at the polls is whether the Earl who has forsworn his titles will in fact not seem less of an anachronism than Harold Wilson, who brags that he is "classless" but harps on class consciousness. Home may well seem to many Britons a symbol of the bad old days, when privilege meant power without responsibility. On the other hand, Labor's new order would create its own privileged class, one that has had little or no experience of power and would owe its primary responsibility to the state...
Flabby Argument. It is all so confusing that even the U.S. Supreme Court gets lost in the tangle. Only two years ago, Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing for the majority, said in effect that blue laws would violate the First Amendment only if their essential purpose were to aid religion, but nowadays "most of them, at least, are of a secular rather than a religious character." Sunday, said Warren, has come to be "a time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like." Seldom has an issue of liberty been argued...