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...moment dictates. In the days immediately following last month's election, Wilson sounded almost as conservative as Tory Leader Edward Heath in talking about the need for national unity to solve Britain's economic problems. But last week, in the Queen's speech from the throne outlining the government's policy for the year ahead, Wilson seemed very much an orthodox socialist...
...change of heart, such as it was, was dictated at least in part by Wilson's need to placate leftists in his Labor Party, who were worried that the Prime Minister had gone soft on business. Far from it. In the speech from the throne, which was written by Wilson and his top aides and delivered tonelessly to peers and commoners in the House of Lords by a crowned and jeweled Queen Elizabeth, the government lived up to Labor's campaign pledges by promising to nationalize the shipbuilding and aircraft industries, put potential sites for housing under government...
Valid as Heath's points were, his desultory, halfhearted riposte pointed up Britain's lack of a strong Conservative alternative to Labor. In commenting on Wilson's references to economic crisis, Heath spent much of the debate following the throne speech in a tired, I-told-you-so reprise of the recent campaign, self-righteously observing that he had said things would get worse. Wilson merely pointed his finger back, recalling that he too had said things would get worse...
...stress the strength of the throne, Iran lays heavy emphasis on kingly privilege. Not only do aides, including the Premier, kiss his hand, but peasants also kiss his feet as a mark of respect. When the Shah stands, everyone in his presence also stands until he sits again. Iranian public works, from the 609-ft.-tall Mohammed Reza Pahlavi dam, Iran's highest, to the Aryamehr steel complex, are named in honor of the Shah or the Shahbanou. "The outside world thinks that we want that sort of thing," said Empress Farah in an interview last week with TIME...
...imagine him on a horse. But he is a spider of infinite guile and smarmy villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation he is as playful as a youngster with a shiny new toy. This is one of several psychological effects subtly managed by Moriarty...