Word: profumo
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...with the appearance in Plymouth of querulous Quintin Hogg, formerly Lord Hailsham, one of the more erratic of Tory politicians. As Minister of Education and Science in the Conservative Cabinet, Hogg was routinely telling his audience about the superior virtues of the Tories when a heckler shouted: "What about Profumo...
...Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...some, the wait has been longer than for others. Labor began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader...
...William has devoted himself to producing a paper that swears allegiance to nothing but the truth, and to Britain. Last summer's Profumo scandal was reported so explicitly in the Times in the Law Reports, where the racy testimony ran verbatim-that Daily Mirror Tycoon Cecil King was moved to envy: "The Times gets away with legal pornography." But the Times also found a moral lesson that the rest of Fleet Street missed: "Eleven years of Conservative rule have brought the nation spiritually...
...Tory style more congenial. The Prime Minister at first seemed an undistinguished, amateurish compromise, a member for years of the dreary House of Lords who would wilt under the heat of Commons debate. His main advantage was his aloofness from Harold Macmillan's weaknesses: the Common Market fiasco, the Profumo affair, the Skybolt fizzle, the Vassall scandal. But Sir Alec has cut a surprisingly effective figure, even against Harold Wilson, one of the House's sharpest debaters...