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They discussed this during a 70-minute White House meeting to lay the groundwork for Eisenhower's conference starting tomorrow with British Prime Minister Macmillan...
...Britain's ruling Conservatives the overriding issue clearly continued to be the control of the country's climbing inflation. Prime Minister Macmillan, recalling "how eagerly we queued for a bit of off-ration offal" during "six years of Socialist restriction," proclaimed that the difference was that Conservatives believed the state was made for man and not man for the state...
...emergency boost of the bank rate had brought Tories to their lowest ebb in national polls (though the pound steadied last week - see BUSINESS). Macmillan, impressive in the House of Commons, has proved conspicuously unable to make the austere Tory program convincing to the public. Eloquent Viscount Hailsham, the Tories told themselves as they left Brighton, was just what the party needed...
...Laborites as they met at Brighton for their annual conference last week. To the delegates, aglow with the latest poll, which showed 52% of the country's voters favoring Labor, their return to power seemed only a question of waiting for a general election (which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan understandably declared he has no intention of calling before...
...other new ballets-Ashton's La Péri and MacMillan's Noctambules-failed despite inspired and startling flashes of choreographic brilliance. The most ballyhooed premiere of all was Prince of the Pagodas (TIME, Jan. 14) by John Cranko, with music by Benjamin Britten (his first ballet score). Choreographer Cranko's splintered story had in it recurrent themes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, plus snatches of court intrigue reminiscent of King Lear viewed through the wrong end of the telescope. The stage was roiled by gaudy dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite...