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...spot schools of fish. Fuenzalida had no hesitation about taking the job, even though the Chilean air force forbids its pilots to fly south of the cape for fear of violent winds. Despite the danger of overloading his Piper Apache, Fuenzalida squeezed in two extra passengers, BBC Reporter Clifford Luton and BBC Cameraman Peter Beggin...
...longer. Lamenting the "undue bunching of American and crime material immediately preceding the news," Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the government-appointed Independent Television Authority, last week ordered ITV channels to rearrange their schedules. The new rules: "Between 8 and 9 p.m. on weekdays, not more than two programs a week should be American." Not that he was anti-American, explained Lord Hill, a physician who won fame a generation ago by dispensing friendly medical advice over the BBC. It was just that "the authority recognizes that this is an appropriate time for popular family programs, and wishes...
...outcome was caused by purely local issues (example: recent government proposals to lower protective tariffs on jute, which would jeopardize an industry that employs 20% of the city's work force), and the loss was not as sharp as the Tories' recent defeat at thriving, middle-class Luton. But the Tories were painfully aware that they have little time to reverse Labor's gains before elections, probably next spring...
Labor Candidate Will Howie, 39, a neat, bespectacled civil engineer, won out 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...
...prevent a wide-spread voter revolt. But statistics are hardly encouraging. A recent Daily Telegraph Gallup poll reported that Labor led the Conservatives by 9 1/2 percentage points. And the disastrous Tory record in by-elections was continued last week when they absorbed a surprisingly large defeat at Luton. As an industrial town with full employment and considerable prosperity, Luton typifies more than a hundred constituencies which the Tories win to retain power. For the past month, the Conservatives have been more concerned with personalities than policies. But it probably does not matter. Beleagued by energetic Laborites and bedeviled...