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Four months after the twins were born, Margaret qualified as a barrister specializing in tax and patent law. She also kept her political ties. In 1959, when the twins were six and in boarding school, she was adopted as the Conservative candidate for Finchley, a safe Tory seat in the London suburbs. Thatcher romped home with a majority of 16,260 in the Conservative landslide, and her political career was launched...
...accounts the Thatcher family is a close-knit foursome, and Husband Denis is a cheery, supportive consort. Although the Thatchers last week began moving into the impersonal family quarters at No. 10 Downing Street, they will keep their Chelsea house. How much of their Chelsea routine can be kept is another matter. Normally, Thatcher is up at 6:30 a.m. to cook Denis' breakfast and do the shopping before heading off for Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought...
...that many regard as "Margaret's mentor," brilliant, brooding Sir Keith Joseph, 61, proved too controversial to be kept too close to her side. A cerebral, Oxford-educated Jewish businessman, Joseph more than anyone else has been responsible for the Tories' monetarist vision of an unfettered economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have...
Intentional deception sometimes leaves the citizenry in a plight as awkward as Hendrie's. Last month a former ranking employee charged that the Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp. of Niagara Falls, N. Y., had kept workers in the dark about the hazards of toxic chemicals they dealt with. Federal atomic authorities, it was disclosed last month, were encouraged by President Dwight Eisenhower to confuse the public about the risks of radiation fallout during the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s; Government officials refused to warn inhabitants of nearby regions that they were absorbing possibly lethal doses...
...citizenry's essential interest is not in knowledge per se but the social uses to which it is put. What is often kept from the citizen, in the form of knowledge, is social and political power. When demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts...