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Quincy: David Josiah Ballard, Benjamin A. Batson, Jr., Joseph E. Clements, Richard D. Copaken, Leonard Lloyd Eliman, Stephen R. Fenster, Todd A. Gitlin, Michael E. Goldberg, Leon I. Jacobson, David E. Levy, Roy M. MacLeod, II, Joseph P. Newhouse, David H. Sohmalz, Charles A. Stevenson, Brian A. Thompson, Richard E. Wilson...
...case, the campaign is already under way. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan threw a straw in the wind by re-appointing hardheaded Lord Poole as co-chairman of the party with Leader of the House Iain Macleod. Poole, who raised record sums for the Tories in the 1955 and 1959 campaigns, is the reputed author of the "Never-Had-It-So-Good" theme that helped return the government at the last election...
Oddly, the British, who have found it hard to abandon their other ties and their ancient insularity, took great umbrage at De Gaulle's questioning of their European sincerity. Said Tory Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "We do not accept any curt dismissal from the European stage. The days when we might retire into proud isolation from the Continent are finished, and Britain is irrevocably part of Europe and the Western Alliance...
...answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs, and high ritualized hospitality. Johnson per ambulated, gazed and pontificated. He could also be playful as well as sententious. When a young bride sat on his knee and hugged and kissed him, the 64-year-old lexicographer said: "Do it again...
...economic post in which, despite gloomy expectations, he managed to expand Britain's trade with the Common Market. A tough, pragmatic bargainer who is trusted by the party's right wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...