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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan married into a family that stoutly upheld the tradition. Among the relatives of Lady Dorothy (daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire) still prominently around: Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (known to fellow M.P.s as "Sir Reginald Bullying- Manner"), Attorney General; Lord Balniel, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Public Housing; Robert Boothby, the able and voluble Scottish M.P. who was elevated to the peerage. Then there is David Ormsby-Gore, brother-in-law of the Prime Minister's son, Maurice; he is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
...chair in delicate imitation of Chairman Khrushchev) that is not the important thing. You must remember that Khrushchev comes from working class people. He has had to fight for an education. He is not a diplomat; you can't expect him to be polished like Macmillan. He is a very emotional man and, if he bangs on tables, he still expresses the will of the majority of the Russian people...
...Scotland for a weekend of shooting, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan comfortably reposed knock-kneed on a shooting stick while awaiting the flushing of his quarry. Macmillan, looking the soul of a gentleman hunter, was a guest on the estate of Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary. Thoroughly relaxed by his recreation, he dashed back to Britain's best-known shooting gallery, the House of Commons...
...Jack's athletic index, sailing had always ranked high. In June of his sophomore year he brought to Cambridge the MacMillan Bowl, symbol of the intercollegiate championship. "Competing against nine other schools at Wianno, John F. Kennedy and P. L. Reed sailed the Crimson to victory of some 15 points in eight races...
Ignoring his repeated defeats at the U.N., Khrushchev claimed "considerable results" from his trip and called the Soviet anti-colonialism resolution "a great success." He blamed the West, and in particular British Prime Minister Macmillan, for the rejection of his disarmament proposals and warned with a wag of his finger: "If they would like once again to test our strength, we will show them...