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...been Colonial Secretary for two years, was transferred by Prime Minister Macmillan to the key posts of party chairman and leader of the House of Commons. Though seemingly unconcerned as Tory fortunes sagged to their lowest point in more than four years, heavy-lidded Harold Macmillan can react under pressure like Mac the Knife. Pulling his switchblade, he lopped off his liabilities, pinned down his most formidable adversary, and cleared the path toward the next general election...
...Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker were set to doing pushups. Explained the captain: "We teach them to respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command." Under pressure of this sort, morale is sky-high in the 82nd. Enlisted men call out "All the way, sir!" when they salute an officer, get the reply...
...finally decided that her own and the West's future lay in European unity, by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's ponderous admission: "The plain fact is that the formation and development of the Community has created, economically and politically, a situation to which we are compelled to react...
...accompanying questionnaire the viewers indicate whether (and to what degree) they like and dislike the Yankees and the Reds. A final question, seemingly out-of-place, reads: "How many older brothers and sisters do you have?" But Aronson revealed that first-born children "react more strongly to anxiety-producing situations," such as a crucial play in the final game...
...danger that public understanding of the U.S. "aerospace"' force has become fuzzy. "Yet," he said, "our basic concept has remained firm through the years-national security requires that we build, maintain and modernize our aerospace power, and that we emphasize forces that can survive an attack and react with war-waging and war-winning capabilities. Today, for the first time in history, we can be attacked by strong aerospace forces...