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...Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter-in-law Katie...
...Macmillan's mission in town, only two months after his resignation as Britain's Prime Minister, was to attend the House of Commons post-mortem debate on the Profumo-Keeler scandal...
...affair by now had about as much charge as morning-after champagne, but Macmillan felt it was his duty to be present. From the front-bench aisle seat that is traditionally reserved for former Prime Ministers, Macmillan finally rose to deliver his last, compellingly honest words on the case that came near to toppling his government last summer. Though gaunt and ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always...
Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination, the Macmillan Co. announced that it would stop shipping and promoting its bestselling J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth. The publishers felt that for the time being they should lay off ballyhooing the severely critical work by Author Victor Lasky, 46. That did not mean that bookstores were forbidden to sell copies on hand, and the book never faltered from its top position on the bestseller lists. So, with local supplies dwindling, Macmillan decided to start shipping again, though the promotion ban continues. Said a Boston bookshop manager: "I can't stand...
Political figures generally have low ratings. President Lyndon Johnson is in the lower minute range. Harold Macmillan's coefficient was 12 minutes, but it may have fallen since the Christine Keeler affair. (Miss Keeler's rating, incidentally, is two hours.) Surprisingly, de Gaulle has a remarkable coefficient of 7 hours, 30 minutes, but this is somewhat misleading. De Gaulle's thoughts are constantly on France, but he has come to identify France with his own personality. Thus, appropriately adjusted, de Gaulle's coefficient is actually one minute, 30 seconds. Similarly, the former American ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul...