Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected to Parliament in 1924 from the tough shipyard and foundry constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan was deeply moved by the suffering that the Depression brought to his constituents, established "dole schools" which he personally financed, to teach unemployed workers useful crafts. In Parliament he acidly attacked the inaction of his own Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty...
...Macmillan returned to London bedecked with honors and praise, only to see the Conservatives go down to defeat. In the debacle he lost his own Stockton seat, but soon returned to Parliament from the safe constituency of Bromley, near London. In opposition, he turned his acid tongue on the Socialists ("The brave new world has turned into nothing but fish and Cripps"), but was gratified to find himself no longer a rebel in his own party-it now agreed with him. Laborites detested his tart, hectoring manner. The Laborite Daily Herald snapped: "He merely gibes and sneers and ogles...
When NBC-TV produced Richard Strauss's opera Salome a couple of years ago, the striptease question had to be faced. How would the heroine be shown on TV screens after she took off the seventh veil? "Sheath her in a fleshcolored leotard," said Stockton Helffrich, a specialist in such matters. "Have the camera pan on her neck. Then once everybody knows she's wearing something under the veils, you can go to town...
...Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri-La"- the Ford Foundation's hilltop Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, near Stanford University-but also picked up two merit awards for houses in Stockton and Sausalito, Calif...
...Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them, and it is easy...