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Television ratings are not necessarily a reliable index to political popularity, but Tory politicians are still busy reading implications into Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's latest TV appearance. When Mac started to talk, he had an audience of nearly 8,000,000, according to the British equivalent of a Nielsen survey, but by the time he had finished his 15-minute address, more than 1,000,000 viewers had switched off their sets. With syrupy platitudes, the Prime Minister glossed over difficulties and blurred issues, failed to spell out forcefully what his policies would really mean to Britain...
...Macmillan's television performance was only the latest in a series of disappointments that have made Britain begin to question his leadership. Fortnight ago, while addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Macmillan was hooted down by undergraduates shouting "Give us more cliches." In the lobbies of Westminster and the coffeehouses of Soho, a major national pastime is "rubbing the magic off Mac." No longer is he the urbane figure who rescued the Tory Party from the Suez disaster, repaired the Anglo-American breach, led the Tories to a smashing election victory in 1959 with the slogan: "You never...
Addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford's Chancellor (and Britain's Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan encountered a bit of disloyal, not to say disorderly, opposition. Greeted outside the Oxford Union Debating Hall by a jeering mob of 300 flourishing Ban-the-Bomb signs, Supermac followed a phalanx of rugby-hardened supporters to the back door only to find it bolted. Beating his way back to the front door again, Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances...
...GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)-Barbara W. Tuchman-Macmillan...
...Mendès-France urged his countrymen to give up wine in favor of milk; most Frenchmen considered Lactophile Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, achieved a dramatic upsurge in the national milk intake by a campaign that featured a catchy slogan (DRINKA PINTA MILKA DAY) and pictures of shapely milkmaids...