Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still deal in original sin," says a European arms trader. That somewhat mystical remark typifies the reputation of the arms trade, both within and without its own ranks. Arms salesmen apparently can never quite get over the fact that they are the heirs of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the archetypal death merchant who gave the trade its bad name. Bribing, cheating, lying fluently in eight languages and playing upon nations' fears of their neighbors, Zaharoff-as chief salesman for Britain's Vickers company-amassed a huge fortune by selling weapons to both sides in the Boer War, Balkan conflicts...
...like a dream, that the next name in the lists after Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath is Margaret Thatcher." With those uncharacteristically emotional words, the coolly competent M.P. for Finchley accepted her triumph as the first woman ever to head a political party in Britain. Winning seven votes more than the mandatory majority of 139, Mrs. Thatcher, who had toppled former Prime Minister Edward Heath from his ten-year reign as Conservative Party chief the week before, soundly defeated a formidable array of four male challengers. Her leading opponent, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, drew only...
Tory liberals were particularly adamant in opposing the appointment of Sir Keith Joseph as shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Keith blundered away his own chance for party leadership by delivering some ill-considered public remarks last fall about what he called the irresponsible breeding habits of Britain's lower classes (TIME, Nov. 11). More than Mrs. Thatcher, Sir Keith is a rigid monetarist and an outspoken critic of the welfare state, a position that the Labor Party has used to picture him as a defender of mass unemployment and social misery...
...fixed herself a boiled egg for breakfast in her tony Flood Street house in Chelsea. Then she went to face ten party elders, including Whitelaw and Heath's shadow Chancellor Robert Carr, who warned her that they would refuse to serve in the shadow cabinet if she appointed Sir Keith Chancellor. Since Whitelaw accepted Mrs. Thatcher's offer of party deputy leadership later in the week, it is assumed that Sir Keith will have to settle for a less sensitive portfolio...
...Died. Sir Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...