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...fear could threaten the existence of parliamentary democracy. It is, in short, a crisis of Churchillian dimensions -but no Winston Churchill is in sight. Instead, the voters will choose as their next Prime Minister a tired and familiar old face: either cunning, pragmatic Laborite Wilson, 58; schoolmasterly bachelor Edward Heath, 58, the Conservatives' leader; or likable but inexperienced Liberal Jeremy Thorpe, 45, who is a very dark horse indeed...
...expects to win a majority of Parliament's seats. To placate the middle class, Labor in its election manifesto has reduced the number of industries earmarked for nationalization. To soothe the many Britons who still oppose membership in the Common Market-which the Tories boast was Heath's most important achievement as Prime Minister-Labor promises to hold a referendum within twelve months on withdrawal from...
...Edward Heath's Conservatives, who like to portray themselves as the party of law and order best equipped to calm a crisis-ridden nation, began the campaign amid signs of disarray. Two senior members of the Tory shadow cabinet have managed to undermine Heath's already weakened party leadership by differing with him on key is sues. Sir Keith Joseph, the shadow Home Secretary, led off by asserting that the answer to Britain's raging inflation lies primarily in manipulating the nation's money supply, not in imposing the kind of wage-price controls that...
Then even the manifesto caused some Tory red faces. Prepared after long intramural wrangling, it was scheduled for publication late last week after Heath returned from a trip to the U.S. While Heath was still abroad, copies of the manifesto were mysteriously slipped to three London dailies, which proceeded to scoop the Conservative Party with its own platform. Entitled "Putting Britain First," the manifesto puts the fight against inflation above everything else, warning bluntly that "because of the economic crisis, there is no room for early improvement in living standards." The political thrust of the document was clearly aimed...
...made on the premises of a one-store operation, Steve's Ice Cream, 191 Elm St. The atmosphere is simple and cheery. And Steve has a great gimmick: if you opt for the 50 cent rather than the 30 cent scoop you can have additions such as nuts, crushed heath bars and fruit kneaded in for 5 cents apiece. The store's growing popularity and extensive publicity, however, have resulted in nightmarishly long lines every evening. The New Yorker referred to Steve's as "the closest thing to night life in the Cambridge-Somerville area," and New Times listed...