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...looking forward to this fight," said Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week. "I'm almost spoiling for it." He did not have long to spoil. Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory backbenchers cheered lustily while the newly elected member for Kinross took his oath as an M.P. and moved into his place for the first time on the government's front bench. Pulling out a small red and gold ballpoint pen, Douglas-Home hunched down in his seat and scribbled furiously on slips of paper for the next 42 minutes while Labor Party Leader Harold...
Next day the Tories had one to talk about, when ballots were at last counted after another by-election in the sprawling Scottish constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire. There, in one of Britain's safest Tory seats, Tory Prime Minister Lord Home-now plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home-won a seat in the House of Commons. His 9,328-vote margin exceeded his party's most buoyant expectations. What's more, in the course of 72 speeches and a hectic eleven-day campaign, the former peer proved that he is a vigorous, tough-minded politician...
...over Tory Sir John Fletcher-Cooke, 52, a tweedy, mustached former colonial administrator, by promising Luton the new schools, housing and industrial expansion that Labor is pragmatically building its election hopes around. Before returning to London for Parliament's reopening this week, Douglas-Home, the new M.P. for Kinross, remained professionally optimistic: "Luton was the last page of the old chapter. Kinross is the first page...
...Prime Minister attached his name and family seal to a document renouncing six ancient peerages. Thus, less than a week after taking office, the 14th Earl of Home became Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, commoner, and so qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
Wealth and generations of superiority, says Hall, have made the nobility independent of public opinion. "The divorce court today represents more happiness than the silver wedding parties of our fathers," says Lord Kinross (only one marriage dissolved). The prevalence of silver or even golden divorces does not seem to dimmish the peerage's optimism about marriage; Earl Russell took a fourth wife at 80, and the Marquess of Winchester, now 99, tried for the third time...