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Since the Tories will find it hard to win the support of all Liberals, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and M.P.s from Ulster, the overall majority of one now enjoyed by Labor theoretically enables Wilson's successor to hang on until late 1979, when the present Parliament reaches its statutory limit. But lacking a popular mandate, he will probably decide to seek an election, possibly in 1978. While this will not give him very much time to demonstrate an ability to tackle Britain's deep social and economic problems, if he needs help, Wilson will not be far away...
...have given the Tories considerable psychological clout, but not enough to try for a no-confidence vote that might force Wilson to resign and call for new elections. To swing that, the Tories would have to line up all the votes of the 13 Liberals, eleven Scottish and three Welsh nationalists, and the twelve Ulster M.P.s...
Despite his flak-some say genius-for topology, Welsh-born, London-reared Greg Bright dropped out of school at 17. Ever since, he has been making mazes with paper, books and furniture and, on one project, known as the Pilton maze, he created a mile-long serpentine of ditches in a muddy meadow, most of which he dug himself, working "like a rabid mole...
...authors rightly approach the castle as the center of medieval life. Their story ranges well beyond the castle gate, but it centers on Chepstow, a well-preserved fortress on the Welsh border not far from Bristol. The 12th century lord of Chepstow, William Marshal, turns up with a companion knight on the tournament circuit in France. Touring the country like early-day golf pros, they clean up handsomely, accumulating scores and scores of horses and piles of armor in more than 100 contests...
...this Taffy writing in the New York Times to lambaste the greatest Englishman of his age, Winston Churchill? Was Welsh Actor Richard Burton trying a backhanded publicity stunt for the TV documentary The Gathering Storm, which starred Burton as a stringy, humorless Winnie and was aired to celebrate the centenary of Churchill's birth? Or was he playing protector of Fiancee Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, whose father, Prince Paul, handed over his country to the Nazis in 1941 and was publicly vilified by Churchill...