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...police had been tipped off by suspicious parents, but even so they weren't entirely prepared for what awaited them in a hotel room in the quiet spa town of Leamington, 160 km northwest of London. As they raided one day in August, stepping over the rubber stockings, condoms and sex-aid brochures found scattered about the room's floor, the cops found a 14-year-old girl who'd been enticed there for illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had corresponded frequently in the poorly policed realm of the Microsoft Network's Internet chat...
...pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden, on the ground of ill health, took a three-week vacation in Jamaica; he never recovered, physically or politically. On Jan. 9, 1957, he quit his office and resigned the Commons seat from Warwick and Leamington that he had held since 1923. Harold Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister...
...next four years I carefully followed Mondale's voting record and career as a senator. When he announced his decision not to seek the presidency in 1976 I was disappointed but respected his priorities. This past April, while visiting Minneapolis for a job interview, I saw him in the Leamington Hotel downtown. He was greeting florists on their way to a convention in one of the ballrooms. He was in the center of the hotel lobby, smiling, still chewing...
...down so far he had no place to go but up. And up he went-up from a 16-point deficit in the polls, up from the chaos of the Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering. "It's a real Donnybrook," Humphrey declared with characteristic ebullience. Yet the grin was grim. Giving endless thanks to his staff, family and supporters, Humphrey...