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...party conference, bald, stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 190 Ibs.) Iain Macleod, who had been Colonial Secretary for two years, was transferred by Prime Minister Macmillan to the key posts of party chairman and leader of the House of Commons. Though seemingly unconcerned as Tory fortunes sagged to their lowest point in more than four years, heavy-lidded Harold Macmillan can react under pressure like Mac the Knife. Pulling his switchblade, he lopped off his liabilities, pinned down his most formidable adversary, and cleared the path toward the next general election...
...from the Nerve Center. To move up Macleod, Macmillan relieved Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler, 58, as party chairman and Commons leader. Macmillan's overt aim was to free Butler to act as his personal deputy, and take charge of the group of ministers assigned to handle Britain's crucial negotiations with the European Common Market. Shrewd, tart-tongued "Rab" Butler, who has long been Macmillan's chief rival for 10 Downing Street, was thus removed from the party's nerve center to an assignment that could make or break the government-but will reflect luster...
Labor's escape from the wilderness coincides with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's steady decline from his 1959 popularity peak, when prosperity, his confrontation with Khrushchev, and a top London advertising agency all burnished the image of "MacWonder." At their lowest ebb since the election ("this valley of sluggishness," Gaitskell called it), the Conservatives are trailing five full points behind Labor's Gallup-estimated hold on 37-5% of the population. Few expect a general election much before the government's term runs out in 1964. But Hugh Gaitskell, as his foes ruefully testify...
...accepted Britain's bid for membership and set the first negotiating sessions for next week. At the risk of jettisoning deep-rooted ties with the Commonwealth, Britain had finally decided that her own and the West's future lay in European unity, by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's ponderous admission: "The plain fact is that the formation and development of the Community has created, economically and politically, a situation to which we are compelled to react...
...utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...