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BRITAIN'S new Chancellor of the Exchequer has a voracious appetite for good food-and tackles complex economic issues with the same gusto. Youngest of six postwar Tory Chancellors (he is 45), breezy, beefy Reginald Maudling is a warm, relaxed middle-of-the-roader with a fast, fluent tongue and a nimble mind. He likes to recall the advice of his tutor at Oxford: "Philosophy progresses not by finding the answers but by progressively clarifying the questions." Reggie Maudling's talent for clarifying policy questions-and finding answers-has earned him recognition as one of the most vigorous...
...Diego County School Superintendent Cecil Hardesty, 55, an able but colorless middle-of-the-roader who based his campaign on experience and a nonpartisan approach to the state's education problems, received the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner...
Pocket Money. Last week the army split broke out into the open. Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns. Up from ancient Damascus came the conservative, high-ranking officers who supported General Zahreddin; down from Aleppo in the north came hotheaded, pro-Nasser junior officers of Colonel Louis Atassi. After a nightlong acrimonious debate, the officers emerged smiling into the daylight to announce complete agreement...
...Chile's President Alessandri blamed the Communist bloc for the "disquieting situation in the hemisphere." Mexico, from whose shores Castro launched his original invasion of Cuba, is the nation still most dedicated to Castro's cause, and though President López Mateos, a middle-of-the-roader, might have reservations, he is held back by the re-emergence of Mexico's most powerful politico, former President Lázaro Cárdenas, 65, now a Stalin Prize-winning fellow traveler, who is whipping up pro-Castro demonstrations...
...Wright, 38, Fort Worth Congressman, is a middle-of-the-roader who at this stage has the private backing of both Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn...