Word: hailsham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hailsham, England...
...century reign. The vast majority of her subjects clearly appreciate the manner in which she has fulfilled her unique constitutional role: embodying the nation's unity, providing historical continuity, standing above party strife and class divisions. "We yearn for symbols of national unity," wrote Tory Elder Statesman Lord Hailsham in the Sunday Telegraph. "The Americans have their Constitution and flag. In addition to our flag, we have our Queen." Nonetheless, as Hailsham told TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, he fears that the institution of the monarchy remains "vulnerable to a bad monarch" and that even a good Queen...
Dose of Escapism. In somewhat more veiled fashion, former Prime Minister Edward Heath said much the same thing as Macmillan at the Tories' conference in Brighton earlier this month. Another former Tory minister, Lord Hailsham, recently called for nothing less than scrapping the ancient parliamentary system ("an elective dictatorship") and replacing it with an American-style written constitution...
...misgivings: 73% feel that the unions are too powerful, while 66% believe that they are more powerful than the government. For obvious reasons, Wilson would like to keep the union issue out of campaign debates, but the Tories may not let him. In a speech last week, Tory Lord Hailsham, former Lord Chancellor, acidly described the Labor Party as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of the unions...
...brisk run on cutaway coats and striped trousers. British courtroom fashions differ markedly from American ones. An eye catching picture neatly captured that difference: there was America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the British Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, sat in bewigged splendor. ··· Not for nothing did the jet-set society earn its sobriquet. People arrive and depart from it with supersonic suddenness, though few have managed to do so as discreetly as Talitha Getty, the glamorous...