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...beautiful than ever as she smiles and chats with family and friends. At week's end, with her sister Princess Radziwill, Caroline and John Jr., she flew to a family reunion in Hyannis Port, and to appear in a transatlantic TV birthday tribute with Britain's Harold Macmillan, Berlin's Willy Brandt, Ireland's Sean Lemass...
...study of contemporary political science, with a big-name, not-necessarily-Harvard director. Some 200 tape-recorded interviews have been conducted with the great and the near great to create an "oral history" of the Kennedy years. So far, about the only holdout is former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who explains that he is preparing his memoirs and hopes "to write about his relations with President Kennedy with more feeling than he could put into a recording...
Anyway, he finds the traditional Tory style more congenial. The Prime Minister at first seemed an undistinguished, amateurish compromise, a member for years of the dreary House of Lords who would wilt under the heat of Commons debate. His main advantage was his aloofness from Harold Macmillan's weaknesses: the Common Market fiasco, the Profumo affair, the Skybolt fizzle, the Vassall scandal. But Sir Alec has cut a surprisingly effective figure, even against Harold Wilson, one of the House's sharpest debaters...
...made foreign and defense policy his chief issue. He promises to retain an independent nuclear deterrent, even if it is only the U.S.'s Polaris submarines. And he would dearly like to bring about some kind of rapprochement between Russia and the United States, like the one that helped Macmillan so much in 1959. But popularity polls show little response to these appeals, and the summer promises to be a period of political doldrums after an 18-month uproar...
This Labour margin may be decreased by October, but there is little chance that the Tories can rub it out altogether. For all its modern and traditional appeals, Sir Alec's Conservative Party stands just as far below Labour in the polls as Harold Macmillan's did seven months ago. Labour's majorities are looking less like protests against Tory scandals and more like mandates for a Labour government...