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...course, nobody was content to leave it at that, in a world that speaks of diplomatic illnesses and remembers Khrushchev's phony toothache during Macmillan's Russian trip. If Nikita was not really sick, no known external situation seemed to require him to postpone his French trip, and the explanation had to lie in an internal crisis, or trouble provoked by his Chinese partners. He had been gadding about so much lately that something might well require his presence in the Kremlin to help resolve...
...class." France's Catholic bishops forbade clergymen to greet Khrushchev in their churches, urged laymen to recite the prayer Pro Pace (For Peace) in his presence. De Gaulle prepared himself by watching movies of Khrushchev's U.S. tour and huddling with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had flown over to give the general a few British attitudes to keep in mind...
...millions who populate them. "The mass of Africans do not want independence," he assured his Parliament last week. "They are just being used by a few small groups [of Africans] who are really considering their own interests." In the same building six weeks before, Britain's Harold Macmillan had warned of the "wind of change" sweeping the continent and of Britain's sympathies with nationalist aims. To Verwoerd, who edited a pro-Nazi newspaper during World War II and might have been expected to choose his historical comparisons more carefully, Macmillan's attitude smacked of Munich-like...
...official voting days, 3,673 out of Oxford's eligible 30,000 M.A.s* turned up in robes to vote. One by one, in the great room where Parliament met in 1665 to escape the plague of London, they marked their ballots for Oliverum Shewell Franks or Mauricium Haraldum Macmillan. Education Minister Sir David Eccles was among those who had to revalidate their degrees to vote, a process that brought Oxford an unexpected windfall of $6,000 in fees. One train brought down Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys from London. Old Laborite Lord Beveridge, 81, tottered in just in time...
...Prime Minister, who had won by only 279 votes, risked his prestige in a battle that so many regarded as frivolous and others as even "shameful"? According to one don who asked him, Macmillan had a characteristic reason. "It's like fox hunting," he said. "Nobody cares about the fox. It's the chase that counts...