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Most satisfying of the new items were Birthday Offering by Veteran Frederick Ashton and Solitaire by Kenneth MacMillan. Ashton whipped out his piece last year in honor of the company's 25th anniversary; it proved to be a sequined, dazzling showpiece for 14 soloists, and a convincing demonstration of the kind of high-caliber reserve talent the Royal Ballet can call on when it needs to. Margot Fonteyn's enchainement (linked movements) looked as poised and effortless as everybody expected; there was also some lithe, beautifully filigreed dancing by Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Svetlana Beriosova. Solitaire, a less...
...fashion: rival leaders complain that he starts off practically every argument with the words, "My union will . . ." Along with belligerence he has shown a notable power to sway labor audiences-sometimes by what the London Sunday Times worriedly calls "feline capacity for destructive argument." When Cousins scornfully rejected Harold Macmillan's plea to address the T.U.C. last fall on wage restraint ("What does he think we are? A film festival?"), the congress loosed its loudest approving roar in years. Toward Common Sense. As deeply anti-Communist as Ernie Bevin was, Cousins is unwilling to leave the present...
...ancient books. To Chatsworth. where earlier Cavendishes had kept Mary Queen of Scots prisoner, came Burke, Fox and other generations of Whig and Liberal leaders of empire to talk of cabinets and kings. Today, long after the Whig decline, Chatsworth preserves its influence in other ways: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is only one of several British statesmen married to a Cavendish...
...Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan is the daughter of the ninth duke...
...THEY KILLED THE KING (206 pp.)-Hugh Ross Williamson-Macmillan...