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Though Dave frequently meets the high and mighty in his post, he is pretty casual about it all. He describes the Shah of Iran as "my kind of shah," charmed Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan by presenting him to Kennedy as "the greatest name in Britain." Meeting Grace Kelly and Rainier on the White House steps, Powers was so taken by Grace's beauty that he said. "Welcome to the White House, Princess," then turned away before remembering that her husband was there too. He wheeled around and added: "And you too, Prince." When he met Nikita Khrushchev...
...Macmillan's constituency, which had voted Labor by 1,851 votes in a 1946 by-election. Shy, shaggy Kentishman Heath immediately captured the Tory matrons' vote. Says one: "When he flashed that smile of his, he won our hearts. From then on, we all called him Teddy among ourselves...
Young Heath first showed a flair for music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany...
...effect, pick a new Prime Minister. Recalls one participant in the meeting: "Round and round we went, talking for hours - all except Ted. He listened." After listening almost all night, Heath was able to assure party chieftains that the rank and file would wholeheartedly support one man : Harold Macmillan...
...Grass Roots. The new Prime Minister, who by then dined almost nightly with Heath, made him Minister of Labor in 1959. when his government was step ping hard on inflationary pay raises. After only nine months at Labor, he was summoned by Macmillan and entrusted with the momentous job of getting Britain into Europe. He was appointed Lord Privy Seal, was also appointed to serve as Foreign Office spokesman in the Commons, since Foreign Secretary Lord Home sits...