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...Socialists promptly blasted the government for laying the added burden on the whole population, meaning that most of it would be borne by the well. Deliberately so, said Heathcoat-Amory: the government believed this was fairer than putting a still heavier burden on the sick, who are least able to bear...
Second Choice. Macmillan's choice of stooped, spectacled Derick Heathcoat Amory as Thorneycroft's successor was well calculated to reassure the financial community if any man could. A shy, reticent Etonian who was wounded and captured while fighting with Britain's paratrooping Red Devils at Arnhem during World War II, Heathcoat Amory is a successful businessman who has helped make his family textile company one of Britain's most progressive. A staunch friend of the U.S. and an enthusiastic champion of the European free trade area, he has earned wide respect for his ability in administering...
...Agriculture Ministry officials highhandedly refused to let it go at any price; they wanted to make an experimental farm out of it some day. Crichel Down has now become a national symbol of the arrogance of bureaucrats. Dugdale, resigning, gallantly took the rap for his subordinates. His successor: Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 54, who had been a success as Minister of State at the Board of Trade...
Britain's economy is growing stronger; how soon can it afford convertibility, that final stage of financial confidence when British pounds may be freely exchanged with dollars and other currencies? Within the next year "perhaps," answered Derick Heathcoat-Amory, Minister of State in the Board of Trade last week. Along with convertibility, said Tory Heathcoat-Amory, should come "the total abolition of import restrictions." Just how soon this happy day arrives, he added, depends on 1) Britain's own balance-of-payment situation; 2) whether the U.S. helps by liberalizing its own international trade policy...
Married, Joyce Wethered, 34, world's greatest woman golfer, four times English woman champion; and Captain Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 42, British sportsman; in London...