Word: mayhew
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Callaghan appealed to many Laborites as a pragmatic politician with a shrewd, intuitive sense of what the average voter wants. Some Labor M.P.s were bothered by the fact that, like Wilson, he seems impossible to pin down ideologically. Christopher Mayhew, a former Labor M.P. who entered Parliament with Callaghan in 1945, recalled that the new M.P. was even then a leader, hustling about to corral his fellow freshmen for a meeting. "But on the great issues of the day," recalls Mayhew, "there was no indication of where he stood...
Crichton, venturing outside sci-fi (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man), again proves a skillful researcher and popularizer. Drawing from such scholars as Henry Mayhew, a bygone chronicler of the criminal subculture, he wittily lances the pomposities of 19th century England, when material and moral progress seemed inseparable...
...trouble is, said Conte, that the claims from various beekeepers were paid without first checking to see if the dead bees expired from "pesticides, old age, arthritis or too much high living." He singled out one apiary in Mayhew, Miss., that he labeled "the queen bee of all recipients in 1972, waxing the taxpayers for $457,000." A spokesman for the apiary admitted that it is hard to tell just how bees die, adding, "The least little thing kills them." But Congressmen have tender hearts. Despite Conte's complaints, the program has been extended another four years...
...Dallas there is much that is larger than life-particularly prison sentences. In April a jury imposed 5,005 years on each of the two convicted kidnapers of Socialite Amanda Mayhew Dealey. Of course, defense attorneys pull out every stop and follow every stereotype to get a sympathetic jury. But one hint of how prosecutors manage to select vengeance-minded jurors came out recently in the liberal Texas Observer. It obtained a copy of a syllabus put out by the Dallas County district attorney's office. The chapter on "Jury Selection in a Criminal Case," written by Jon Sparling...
...tool. A few weeks ago, Nasser told a visiting British Member of Parliament, Laborite Christopher Mayhew: "Western papers say that I am going to become another Czechoslovakia. How do they think these Russian technicians are going to seize power? I have my army, my police and no Communist Party [it is outlawed in Egypt]. What are they going to do ?march on Cairo...