Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the Tories cannot update is Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Whether joshing on television or jousting in Commons, the diffident, aristocratic Opposition leader is ingloriously upstaged by Wilson's wiles. Though he invariably trails the Prime Minister in national popularity polls, Home has refused to step down in favor of a more appealing candidate. For that matter, neither of his two ablest lieutenants and most likely successors-Reginald Maudling, now the Opposition's foreign policy expert, and Edward Heath, its "shadow" economics minister-has yet shown any relish for challenging the leader. The Tories, still recovering from...
...leadership among provincial voters. The Conservatives would love to topple Pearson's government and force new elections. But the party is in the midst of an intramural fight over the leadership of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who at 69 is growing waspish and curmudgeonly, but refuses to step down. Until that battle is decided, no one wants elections...
Occasionally Dr. Bach had to step in and trigger the conversation. "John," he said to the gas-station manager, "you're not retreating into that phony shell of yours again, are you?" "I've said it all," John complained. "I told you I've had no real education. The doctors here have more important things to say." The industrial designer demurred: "What do they really know? You've given us more of your real feelings already than this psychiatrist. Take away his fancy vocabulary, and what have you left?" The actress chimed in: "Doctor, I feel...
Across the U.S., virtually every city and suburb can point with pride-and sometimes alarm-at those who forced Progress to step around them rather than let it walk over them. For most holdouts, there may be satisfaction in the fact that they automatically produce a monument to their own stubbornness. The symmetry of Manhattan's towering RCA Building is notched by a drab four-story building housing Hurley's Bar, whose owner turned down offers of $1,000,000. San Francisco's 27-story Shell Building is conspicuously shaped to surround a narrow, eleven-story building...
Next day, the first hour's trading volume was the greatest in history: 2,630,000 shares. Stocks soared, plunged back on a midday news bulletin that Russia might step up aid to the Viet Nam Communists, then spurted again. Many small investors sold on the news from Moscow, but the institutions and professional traders kept buying. The market jumped eleven points that day, 17 points the next...