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Perhaps no man personifies what Harrison Salisbury calls "the integration of English life and its whole national being within politics" than Michael Foot. Now head of Britain's Labour Party, and a man whose wealth of experience--newspaper editor, literary scholar, political columnist, book critic, and the most respected orator...
Yet the whole process is strange. Even the mechanical act is strange-hand takes up Bic or hovers over the Smith-Corona, while the inner voice, heaving between aggressiveness and trepidation, murmurs with all the subtle power of an orator on trial. But no one is there. First one addresses...
All these plans, however, must await the outcome of the tax and budget pro gram, which for the moment is quite revolutionary enough. Reagan is proposing the deepest cuts in expenditures ever sought by a President. He is asking the nation to take a bold gamble that major tax cuts...
DIED. Oswald Ernald Mosley, 84, dashing, charismatic leader of the British Union of Fascists whose army of anti-Semitic Blackshirts fomented hatred in London during the 1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English...
Such exhortations come naturally to Foot who, in his 30 years in Parliament, has established a reputation as a highly effective, alternately fiery and witty, orator. In a recent Commons speech, for example, he ridiculed Tory Industry Secretary Keith Joseph by comparing him to a magician who takes a gold...