Word: mikardo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With prosperity rising and class lines blurring, the old socialist slogans are becoming bogeys, rather than attractions. Nationalization is now an electoral liability even among Laborite voters. Thus last Thursday, Ian Mikardo, vice-Chairman of the Labor Party and leader of the party left, lost his industrial seat to a Conservative. Where the promise of equality attracted votes before, the offer of opportunity is winning them...
...familiar spraddle-footed gait, Khrushchev settled down at a table with three British M.P.s. "I didn't come here to talk politics," he began with a grin. "I represent business circles of the Soviet Union." That raised a laugh that brought reporters running. Thereupon, Laborite M.P. Ian Mikardo asked what might come of the proposed Foreign Ministers' meeting. "We have a saying," answered Khrushchev: "Don't count your chickens until autumn." The May 27 deadline on Berlin, he said expansively, was no deadline. "It might be postponed until June 27 or July...