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...Scilly Isles, off the Cornwall coast, all was serene in the cozy bungalow where plump, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Harold Wilson relaxed with his family, now and then paddling a boat in and out of rocky coves. Wilson had good reason for contentment. During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government. To the surprise of many, Wilson was still Prime Minister, though he had only four votes to spare - the narrowest margin in this century...
...Washington last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson accomplished one miracle-he made President Lyndon B. Johnson look like a fashion plate. As newsmen crowded into Johnson's White House office they found Wilson slouched on a couch by the fireplace, pipe in hand, wearing a wrinkled dark grey suit, greyish socks, brown shoes, and a tie colored a muddy green...
...passed in front of Emerson Hall, the Memorial Church bells chimed noon. Bundie quickened his pace in order to avoid the crowd which was soon to pour out of Sever's west door. He fingered the lapels of his new Coop sports jacket and lit his Leavitt and Peirce pipe thus completing his disguise...
...daydream dimensions pose in the front yard of a Maine summer home, while an artist and his easel stand on the rooftop, projecting above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision stems from reality. To do the snow scene, he sketched a Manhattan street corner during a blizzard until his fingers were stiff with cold...
...rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...