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...defeat on such an important question, while it did not constitutionally require the government to resign, immediately called into question its future existence. Wilson cancelled his birthday party Friday and made the Labour leftists see the light. Although it had to resort to the expedient of bringing in MP's on stretchers, the Wilson government won in a replay of the budget battle and assured its short term survival. In the course of the debate, Healy had morally offended many of the hard core leftists, known as the Tribune group and the incident left Wilson's position shaky...

Author: By Bagehot Minor, | Title: Exit Wilson? | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...work, then abandoning the family; mother turning to alcohol; two brothers often in prison or reform school; one uncle a convict; life, with no privacy, in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., and in a grandmother's house in Alton, Ill.; postwar service as an Army MP in Nurnberg, Germany; a discharge for a "lack of adaptability" to military service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The King Assassination | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

When in that house MP's divide...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...dull MP's in close proximity...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...first Monty Python album (with a big foot crushing a TV screen on the cover) includes the immortal "Dead Parrot" sketch. Unfortunately it's an import and so more expensive than the ordinary record; this is compensated for, though, by the availability of MP's subsequent two albums as $1.99 cut-outs. These are both classics and include the "Argument Clinic," "Budgies," "Spam," "The Undertaker," "The Travel Agent," "How Long is it?" and Karl Marx on a quiz show. Each contains at least one run of five or six superb pieces...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

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