Word: parliament
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Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...
...Labour can surpass their two per cent margin at the last election, Wilson should walk into Parliament in April with a substantial majority...
...balance Wilson seems in an excellent position to escape from the restrictions imposed by his present margin in Parliament. While Labour restrains the traditional support of the working class, and of all voters in the 35 to 49 age group, it may be some consolation to Heath that the Conservatives still lead in gaining the allegiance of women...
Though the twelve major ministries are again likely to be more or less evenly divided along party lines, Klaus will probably pry Socialist Christian Broda out of the Justice Ministry, which has become a stumbling block for red-black cooperation. Furthermore, Klaus hopes to revitalize Parliament, which had become little more than a rubber-stamp assembly, receiving bills only after the Cabinet had put them in all but final shape. With a majority of his own, Klaus intends to use Parliament to shape his legislative program. Tops on his list: a speedup of negotiations for Austria's associate membership...
Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...