Word: supermac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Victor Weisz, 52, Britain's acerb political cartoonist "Vicky," an aggressive socialist who over 25 years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Après le déluge-moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London...
...conflict with U.S. policy? The biggest question of all is whether France's inclusion in the offer was a deliberate ploy by Jack Kennedy to end or at least downgrade Britain's prized "special relationship" with the U.S. The cartoonists went even farther. They not only showed Supermac jumping to Superjack's commands, but De Gaulle and Adenauer as well...
Addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford's Chancellor (and Britain's Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan encountered a bit of disloyal, not to say disorderly, opposition. Greeted outside the Oxford Union Debating Hall by a jeering mob of 300 flourishing Ban-the-Bomb signs, Supermac followed a phalanx of rugby-hardened supporters to the back door only to find it bolted. Beating his way back to the front door again, Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...
...hosts." Finally, at a reception given by the mayor of Johannesburg, Macmillan found something to say that fitted in with what he considered a proper discretion. Looking out over a park filled with 1,000 white guests toward the looming skyline of the city (pop. 884,000), Supermac intoned: " The great romance of this city! Think of it! Only 73 years ago - nothing. And now - all this. Think how it was made - we two races, the British and the Dutch...