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Callaghan appealed to many Laborites as a pragmatic politician with a shrewd, intuitive sense of what the average voter wants. Some Labor M.P.s were bothered by the fact that, like Wilson, he seems impossible to pin down ideologically. Christopher Mayhew, a former Labor M.P. who entered Parliament with Callaghan in 1945, recalled that the new M.P. was even then a leader, hustling about to corral his fellow freshmen for a meeting. "But on the great issues of the day," recalls Mayhew, "there was no indication of where he stood...
...GEORGE OF THE CENTER. Leonard James Callaghan, 64, is the London bookies' favorite (9 to 4 last week) to succeed Wilson, and many politicians agree. A shrewd political strategist, Callaghan has two main assets as a potential party leader: broad popularity and the "bottom," as the British call it, to put renegades in their place. "Sunny Jim" is also the only politician among the eggheads in the party's highest councils whose background reflects that of most Labor voters. The son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer, Callaghan quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother...
...stave off devaluation of the British pound during the first Wilson government in 1967. At the time, one of his Cabinet colleagues complained: "Jim was a pushover for the treasury mandarins. He simply did not have the intellectual equipment to overrule their traditionalist advice." But Callaghan has a shrewd sense of grass-roots opinion, and in the words of one junior minister, he "knows what the ordinary bloke will wear and not wear." He enjoys more union support than other contenders, keeps a firm hand in the party machinery, and has well-placed supporters in key constituencies up and down...
...question is, after all the pain and bad feelings, was it worth it? The answer is yes, and one reason for that answer is Redford. If he was never completely satisfied with any of his coworkers' contributions, he turned out to be a shrewd editor of their work, choosing from their offerings that which fitted?and expanded?his original conception of the film. He realized, for example, that Goldman was not entirely wrong when he perceived at the outset that the film required a leavening note of newspaper humor and camaraderie. The journalistic world is one where power asserts itself...
...supplements the individual contracts the players sign. For the first time abandoning the reserve clause's perpetuity principle, they had proposed that every player be bound to a club for "eight and one"-eight years plus one to play out his option. But Marvin Miller, 58, the shrewd, tough executive director of the players' association, countered that he could not bargain away rights the arbitrator had already granted...