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...moment, Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson holds an edge−a remarkable fact inasmuch as the Tories enjoyed a 26.8% majority in one public opinion poll only last year. At that time Conservative Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath and his party had everything going for them, most notably a sick economy. But as winter melted into spring, some of Labor's economic policies began taking hold. The delayed effects of Wilson's 1967 devaluation of the pound were finally being felt. The hold-down on demand for more consumer products was also making an impact. There was new confidence...
Full of confidence, Wilson last week delivered to Heath a note on his 10 Downing Street writing paper that began teasingly: "Dear Ted, I thought it might be helpful to let you know . . ." Then Wilson drove past the freshly gilded gates of Buckingham Palace in his black Rover to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament so that the three-week campaign could get under...
...unruffled, slightly bemused Oxford don calmly puffing his pipe and stoically waiting for better times. The most recent Harris poll shows that 52% of the people sampled would favor Wilson as Prime Minister again, while only 34% would prefer to have him replaced by Conservative Party Leader Edward Heath, whose own popularity remained conspicuously low even when his party was scoring high ratings...
...addition, the government will trim taxes, particularly for the poor and the elderly. About 2,000,000 of Britain's 21.5 million taxpayers will be removed from the tax rolls and another 15 million will enjoy reductions. This news was so startling that Tory Opposition Leader Edward Heath offered barbed congratulations: "We have witnessed not quite a unique event but a very rare event-a Socialist chancellor who has actually announced a reduction in taxes...
...Apollo 11 astronauts' world tour last fall pointedly omitted Sweden, and two months ago, Sweden announced that it would send Hanoi $45 million in reconstruction aid. In reply, the U.S. closed its consulate in Goteborg. More significantly, the U.S. has not had an ambassador in Stockholm since William Heath departed one year...