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With thanks to Lewis Carroll, we herewith comment on the meeting of our new carpenter and builder, Kennedy, with the walrus-mustachioed statesman, Macmillan...
Said the Attorney General: "What he did was to approach the Russians and volunteer to work for them." In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan cut off questions by offering to take the leader of the Opposition into his confidence on the nature and extent of Blake's crime, but publicly would only say: "His action was not the result of brainwashing. He received no money for his services...
...another narrative device, the blind Captain Cat (Nick Carrera) has exactly that power; Alexander Macmillan works a little simple magic with the Reverend Eli Jenkins sunrise and sunset poems; and Newell Flather as Nogood Boyo, Dai Bread, Utah Watkins, and Sinbad is consistently, wonderfully funny...
...Conservative Party passed a notable political milestone last week. It has held office continuously, first under Winston Churchill, then under Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, for 9½ years-longer than any other party in 20th century Britain. As if to celebrate, the Tories scored impressive new victories in the latest round of county council elections in England and Wales. In three of England's most important counties-Lancashire, Middlesex and Essex-Labor lost control to the Conservatives. All in all, Macmillan's men stole away 196 seats (out of 3,974 at stake...
...week's end. Macmillan and Kennedy concluded their conversations with a joint communique that was deliberately and blandly nonspecific about proposed actions of the two nations. "We are in complete agreement," said the communique, "as to the gravity and depth of the danger in the present world situation for those nations who wish to retain their independence and the priceless right of choice." Afterward, in an informal farewell in the White House Rose Garden, President Kennedy summed up the essence of the meetings with Yankee crispness: "It has been the greatest possible pleasure to have had this opportunity...