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...Opposition exploded with a roar. "Woolton! Woolton!" stormed Laborites, shaking their fists at the Peers' Gallery where, next to the Duke of Edinburgh, looking down on the budget proceeding, sat Lord Woolton, one of the powers in the Tory Party. As wartime Minister of Food, Woolton had introduced food subsidies ; during last autumn's election campaign he said emphatically that the Conservatives did not plan to cut them. "More broken promises!" cried a Labor...
...Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed his first ride in a jet aircraft: a 72-minute, 500-m.p.h. test flight over southern England and the Channel. The plane: British Overseas Airways' new Comet airliner, designed to launch commercial jet travel this spring between Britain and South Africa...
...Queen's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will henceforth rank as "first gentleman of the Realm" whenever he is out with his wife. When Elizabeth is not present, Philip, as the most recently created royal duke, will take third place after George VI's brothers: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor...
...Battle. The 625 members of the House of Commons were summoned into session by "three-line whips"-notices underlined three times to indicate a crucial subject. The public galleries were jammed, and outside hundreds of other Britons queued up hoping to get in. Even the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband, took a seat in the Peers' Gallery...
...During his installation address as the new rector of Edinburgh University, Sir Alexander Fleming recalled a memorable moment: It was on a morning in September 1928 that he noticed some mold on a bacteria culture plate. The mold seemed to be destroying the bacteria. "That was very unusual. Instead of casting out the contaminated culture with appropriate language, I made some investigations. The more I investigated, the more interesting it became. I found that the mold made a powerful and nonpoisonous antiseptic. I christened it penicillin...