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Beyond the Fringe. Four wickedly clever young English sharpshooters riddle such sacred institutions as God, Shakespeare and Harold Macmillan. The wackiest loon of the lunatic lot is Dr. Jonathan Miller...
Only six weeks ago, most British politicians believed that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government would not dare call a general election before spring 1964. But in Westminster last week M.P.s were wagering that the Tories would go to the people this fall. Labor Party leaders even claimed to know the date: Oct. 24, about the last possible Thursday (Britain's traditional polling day) before the end of campaigning season...
...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...
Before anything else, Pearson wanted to get in visits with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy. The White House was already at work on an agenda: nuclear weapons; the Columbia River power impasse; Canada's prospective role in the Organization of American States, which Pearson believes his nation should join. Along with this, he was immersed in plans for his "60 days of decision." Asked when they would begin, Pearson shot back without hesitation: "When I take over...
Whatever their real object, the "spies for peace" triggered a full-scale Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary...