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Call to Dad On election night, Heath arrived early at the local Tory headquarters in his constituency of Bexley, in Kent. Shortly after 6, he began placing phone calls to Tory election agents around the coun- try. As he sipped his tea and spoke qui etly on the phone, some of the half a dozen friends in the room noticed Heath's eyes take on a sudden light...
...rest of the night and into the wee hours, Heath watched the returns with friends back at Bexley's Tory offices. His election agent produced a bottle of Glen Livet Scotch, and the party perked up. Shortly after 2 a.m., Heath phoned his 81-year-old father in Broadstairs, Kent. The old gentleman, his youngish wife Mary perched on his knee, was already celebrating. "Things seem to be going well," reported the son. Said the father: "Good luck. I hope it keeps going on like this...
...upper class. It was a conscious, cynical decision, and I think he regrets it today." Still, Heath never pulled up his roots; he not only kept in close touch with his family but never hesitated to take his new-found political friends down to his home in Kent...
...support, today's young radicals remain sufficiently if not well-fed, adequately if erratically clothed, and able to catch the first wind of protest and the nearest available means of transportation in time to show up in the front lines from Berkeley to Birmingham, from Chicago to Kent State. Celebrities like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman can stay close to the action without exactly pinching pennies: Rubin's book Do It! has already earned him $45,000; Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have raked in a cool...
...then again to the death tolls, the waste, the askew priorities that favor death to life. "Let us make this election a referendum on the Viet Nam War." he said. "If Richard Nixon understands nothing else, he understands politics-he understands how to count votes." The Cambodian venture and Kent State came along and played right into his strategy, falling in line so neatly that a Faust might have bargained his soul for them. As the campaign hit the homestretch and the kids flocked to Brown's camp, out ringing doorbells, mailing flyers, answering phones-they couldn...