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...Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly-all the more galling when it really isn't our fault but just bad luck...
...Pick Your Pit." Robens' resignation, if it goes through as expected, will mark the end of a relatively bright era in one of Britain's most beclouded industries. A loud Lancashire socialist with a promising future in the Labor Party when Tory Macmillan chose him for the chairmanship, Alf Robens took the job only, or so he said, because he did not want it to go to "Lord Montgomery or someone like that." For all his socialist background, Robens was made a baron in 1961, and soon showed a gifted eye for profit. By closing down unprofitable collieries...
...SECOND-HAND LIFE by Charles Jackson. 337 pages. Macmillan...
...perfect focus. The editor's footnotes correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...
...choreography, Kenneth MacMillan has been slavishly faithful to Shakespeare and the result is moments which are almost more dramatic than the master's version. The balcony and tombstone scenes are among the most exciting moments of any art form. But MacMillian may have been almost too faithful to the manuscript there are a number of scenes in front of the Capulets' home for instance, which have no value at all to the action of the ballet...