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...government's-problems are far from over. Restoring pay differentials in British industry would introduce a severe complication in negotiations for Phase 3. The strike has sharpened union resentment against the pay policy. Joe Gormley, chief of the Mineworkers' Union, which brought down the Heath government three years ago, says "there is not a cat-in-hell's chance" that the miners will vote for voluntary curbs...
...lights went down and four of Benny's jazz sextet came out. The couple in the balcony did not look relieved. Bass player Percy Heath started plucking his big fiddle. The audience grew quiet. The guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked...
...quote to the situation at hand. It is a difficult task indeed to find a paragraph in Mostly Golf free of a literary snippet. Darwin was as at home writing an introduction to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as he was smashing a niblick off the Kentish heath...
...Mostly Golf in the Pickwickian sense. One is transported into a long forgotten and a more idyllic world that belies reality. Mostly Golf conveys the indian summer tranquillity of Victorian England before the First otherwise sleepy hamlets turned out for cricket matches and the landed aristocracy played over the heath and whins of sedate seaside links...
...that time, Powell's obsession so embarrassed Britain's Conservatives that Tory Leader Edward Heath booted his maverick front bencher out of the shadow cabinet. Powell later gave up a Tory seat he had held for 24 years, joined the Ulster Unionists and returned to Parliament from South Down, a Northern Ireland district, but his clipped mustache and hypnotic blue eyes remain familiar all over the country...