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Britain's Harold Wilson was in puckish good humor. Wearing a pair of sunglasses to hide a sty on one eye, he refused to appear at the door of No. 10 Downing for tourists' photographs. Said he with laconic whimsy: "I might upstage poor Ted Heath again...
...with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...
...government will call a by-election before it reconvenes Oct. 26. Dodds represented a working-class Thameside constituency that returned him last fall with a healthy majority of 8,855 votes, and would probably endorse a Laborite again. But thanks to the election of new Conservative Leader Ted Heath, and Labor's harsh anti-inflationary measures, the latest Gallup poll puts the Tories 7% ahead of Labor. There is just a ghost of a chance that a Tory might capture Dodds's seat, reducing Wilson's majority to a grand total...
Into the House of Commons last week strode Edward Heath to launch his first parliamentary assault on the government as Britain's new Tory leader. It was something of a disappointment - a long and factual speech that even his supporters found some what on the dull side. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately misled the voters last year about the nation's economy...
...pound and that the Bank of England's Lord Cromer had threatened to resign if the pound was not devalued. Wilson labeled the rumors false and "highly neurotic." Before setting off on a holiday in the Scilly Islands, he fired a Parthian shot at devaluation and Ted Heath. "I gather he has no plans to devalue the pound when he gets in power," said Wilson, "but as that won't be for at least 20 years, the question would hardly arise...