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TIME'S cover presses had already begun printing last week when the news of Anthony Eden's retirement came. TIME'S editors quickly decided to change to the portrait of Eden's successor, Harold Macmillan. Within 24 hours, color presses were replated and printing the Macmillan cover...
...contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives of a man in the week's news, as at the time when Tito was host to Bulganin and Khrushchev in the spring of 1955, or the detailed exposition of an involved political situation, as in the Eden cover (TIME, Nov. 19) at the height of the Suez crisis. This week's cover story, says Baker, had to combine most of these elements...
...custom of not criticizing political opponents sharply while in a foreign country, but still his position as the leader of the Opposition to a newly-formed Conservative Government was significant throughout the evening. Gaitskell Wednesday demanded a general election in Great Britain upon the resignation of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, before Harold Macmillan had been named to succeed...
Gaitskell spoke at a press conference in the basement of the Faculty Club, hastily called together after word was received that Eden had resigned. His remarks were heard by a crowd of newspaper, radio, and TV men who pressed the Labor Party leader in on all sides...
...long battle with Bevan, for example, began when, as Chancellor, Gaitskell instituted small charges for spectacles and false teeth in Britain's free health services. Since then, some of his Socialist opponents have professed that they see little difference between the economic policies of Hugh Gaitskell and R.A. Butler, Eden's Tory heir apparent. Despite the anguished cries of these old-line Socialists, Gaitskell today expresses the dominant evolving philosophy of his party through what has been called their doctrinal dilemma--failures in parts of their nationalization program coupled with the achievement of some of their initial aims. Gaitskell continues...