Word: leade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home Secretary Callaghan who led the fight against hanging in the House of Commons last week. "There are times when Parliament has to act in advance of public opinion and give a lead," he said. He pointed out that before 1965, the actual number of executions in Britain had averaged only two a year-hardly enough to affect "the credibility of law and order." Most Laborites favored abolition of the death penalty, and many Tories opposed it. But in the balloting, numerous Tories, including Opposition Leader Ted Heath, voted with the majority. By 343 to 185, the Commons voted...
...which the Continent has not seen in years, if not decades. It would be Utopian to assume that all the movement of the two powers will soon produce a significant relaxation of international tensions. But the fact remains that there is movement, and that small accomplishments may eventually lead to larger ones...
...intake of about one-third ounce a day is harmful to patients with certain types of high blood pressure or heart or kidney disease for whom doctors prescribe "salt-free" (actually, low-salt) diets. Some physicians fear that the inclusion of salt in such products as baby foods may lead to an excessive taste for salt and perhaps disease later in life. One manufacturer replies that every baby must have some salt, and that the concentration in its infant foods is only half that in canned foods for adults...
Friedman is a man totally devoted to ideas?isolating them in pure form, expressing them in uncompromising terms and following them wherever they may lead. His basic philosophy is simple and unoriginal: personal freedom is the supreme good?in economic, political and social relations. What is unusual is his consistency in applying this principle to any and all problems, regardless of whom he dismays or pleases, and even regardless of the practical difficulties of putting it into effect. He alternately delights and infuriates conservatives, New Left radicals and almost every group in the crowded middle road...
...with three children. Suspicious, the mistress demands to see the wife. Winston persuades his spinster nurse, Stephanie Dickinson (Ingrid Bergman), to pose as Mrs. Dentist. Byzantine complications add a flush to Stephanie's sallow countenance, but the complications are purely formal. Once Bergman zeroes in on a male lead, the light comedienne should pack her gags and go home...