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Attlee became Britain's Prime Minister in the startling upset elections of July 1945, when war-weary Britons tossed out Winston Churchill's Tories and gave Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state...
...country's 3,000,000 Chinese, who control some 70% of the country's businesses. After the Peking-inspired attempt to grab Indonesia by coup, the Indonesian public turned on the Chinese in their midst in a bitter pogrom, thus further upsetting the country's frail economy. Outside big cities and district capitals, Chinese may no longer own businesses. Chinese schools have been closed, Chinese organizations ordered disbanded and Chinese papers banned except for two run by the government. "There are too many of them," says Foreign Minister Malik, "so it is impossible to repatriate them." Instead...
...Hungary, where he was born in 1847, is shrouded in obscurity. What is known is that when he left home at 17, he first tried to enlist in the army-anybody's army. But one nation after another turned him down because of his poor eyesight and frail physique. Only the Union Army, desperate for recruits in the Civil War, was willing to take...
...success was balm in her tragic years. In 1848, she buried Branwell; soon after, both Emily and Anne died of consumption. Charlotte fell in love with Arthur Bell Nicholls, the Haworth curate. Her father begged her not to marry because he feared she was too small and frail to sur vive pregnancy. He was right. After a few months of marriage in which she was amazed at her own happiness, Charlotte died of tuberculosis and complications of pregnancy. She was 39. The curse on the Brontes was more implacable than any Charlotte's imagination could devise...
...ever go away!" Later, when she emerges from the stage door, some 200 worshipers are waiting ?even if it is 2 a.m. They don't tear at her, though, as they might some other superstar. They reach out for Judy tenderly, as if she were the last frail leaf of November...