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...single most stimulating parliamentary candidate is Actress Diane Hart, 43, an Independent, now under heavy attack for playing a brothel madam in the new film Two Women -and for wearing a see-through nightie in the role. Undoubtedly the most derivative candidate is one Edward James Robert Lambert Heath, who used to be plain old James Robert Lambert, a 28-year-old schoolteacher. He changed his name by deed poll (a simple court procedure costing $6) to aggravate Conservative Party Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath. Since both Edward Heaths are running in suburban London's Bexley constituency, the voters...
Wilson himself is Labor's strongest asset. With his wit, unflappability and easy manner with voters in pubs as well as on podiums, the perpetually pipe-smoking Wilson, 54, stands in strong contrast to Heath, 53, a somewhat starchy bachelor with an uneven, often irritable manner. Opinion polls reflect Labor's edge. At week's end Labor led by as much as 5.5%, which would translate into about a 60-seat majority in the House of Commons...
...idea was to whip up some frontpage glamour for Conservative Party Chief Ted Heath, whose poll ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...
...greatest problem of the Tories is, as usual, Ted Heath. A bachelor at 53, he is hardly a Trudeau-like swinger. The son of a carpenter, he is often put down as an arriviste by the snobbish Tory squirearchy, and resented as overly stuffy by workingmen. An uninspired orator, he so lacks appeal that he has rarely registered more than 30% approval in the polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson...
...Though Heath cried last week, "We are going to win!" the Tories need an electoral swing of at least 4% in their favor over their 1966 showing. The greatest swing in the last six general elections, however, was only 3.1%, and there are doubts that Heath can retrieve a victory. As Wilson said jestingly in the House of Commons a few weeks ago, "However tired people may be of me, I think most will regard me as the lesser of two evils...