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...Party leader, Sir Alec Douglas-Home might seem the automatic safe choice, but he isn't. His experience in foreign affairs does not compensate for his almost perfect ignorance of economics. He must depend on the competence and experience of his chief ministers to overshadow the talents of the Labour Party's "one-man band," Harold Wilson...
British elections are still contests between parties, not just between the two leading candidates. But it is to Labour's advantage to show off Wilson--who in 1946 became the youngest Cabinet minister since William Pitt--and to play down the relatively untested Labour Front Bench. The Americanization of British politics has proceeded to such a point, then, that an unwary observer might conclude that Harold Wilson is standing for some national office, rather than for reelection in his constituency of Huyton, a suburb of Liverpool...
...which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...Loeb Drama Center concluded its Shakespeare Centennial with three productions by the Summer School Players. Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale, and Richard II were all performed in their entirety on the main stage...
...stage business. (It's good to hear laughter in the Loeb after a spring of tragedy.) One might object that the first act is a bit slow or that the costumes are Napoleonic not Elizabethan, but such things matter little. In the hands of the Loeb players, "Love's Labour's Lost" is a frothy and fun beginning to the summer season...