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...noise had nothing whatsoever to do with why I moved out," Tacie E. Heath '71 said yesterday. "Holmes is as warm as its size permits, but it just isn't personal enough...
...Disarray. What must please Harold Wilson most, though, is the spectacle of the Tory Party in disarray at a time when it should be united against him. While he may be the least popular Prime Minister in three decades, Wilson has the pleasure of knowing that Tory Leader Ted Heath is the least-regarded opposition leader of the era. Heath is having as much difficulty controlling the Tories as Wilson is having with Labor. Last spring, when right-wing M.P. Enoch Powell unleashed a virulent anti-immigration speech in Birmingham. Heath fired him from the shadow Cabinet. Two weeks...
Even when Heath attacked Wilson, he ran into trouble. Addressing a Conservative rally at Wembley last week, he called Wilson's record "the Rake's Progress" and his economic forecast "hooey" and "complacent nonsense." The British are not used to such harsh, direct attacks on their politicians, and Heath's blast prompted that unorthodox but stoutly Tory peer Lord Boothby to come to Wilson's defense. Boothby rose in the House of Lords and, in ironic tones, took note of Wilson's ability to recover. "The Prime Minister may not walk on the water today...
Since white Rhodesians have fervent allies in many right-wing Tories, and their sympathizers are dotted across the political spectrum, Conservative Leader Edward Heath thought the issue ripe for a showdown. His logic: if the Lords voted the government down overwhelmingly, Labor might well demand abolition of the upper house, which he believed it would not dare do without calling a general election. Since the government has lost all but one of the last nine by elections for the House of Commons-an Evening Standard poll last week showed the Tories running 16% ahead of Labor-a general election...
...Heath did not quite make it. From the overstuffed red woolsack,* the Lord Chancellor announced the vote: "184 lords are content, 193 lords are not content." The government had lost by a margin of only nine votes, far fewer than predicted. Shaken, the Lords opposition leader, Lord Carrington, immediately indicated that Conservatives would let the order through without delay if the government reintroduces...