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Conservative strategists spent the weekend analyzing thick printouts detailing the results from the 369 councils. Thatcher retired to Chequers, her official country residence, where she planned to meet with top political counselors, including Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, Deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw and Chief Whip John Wakeham. She reportedly intended to make a final decision early this week. If Thatcher's choice is for a snap election, she will inform her Cabinet, then ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament. The favored election date is June...
Simpson, the Senate's Republican whip, does not hesitate these days to identify the distinguishing feature of Baker's two-month stewardship in the boiler room of the White House: "innate civility and kindness." That's an oddity after decades of worshiping brilliance, cunning and toughness. We have had the regimes of the ascetic and cerebral Ted Sorensen (under J.F.K.), the martinet Bob Haldeman (Nixon), the good ole country boy Ham Jordan (Carter) and the Wall Street sharpie Don Regan, who preceded Baker...
...View" you published on April 20. But Boyd's cartoon means to be taken seriously, and the subject matter is important enough that I can't avoid feeling insulted. The cartoon shows a coat-and-tie clad college student with the label "New Conservatism" with a demonic, whip-holding shadow labeled "New Collegiate Racism...
...also makes the All-Hockey squad because of his flashy moves. MacDonald is a hotdog without the dog. He can whip a puck into the net from anywhere on the ice. And he comes from Mequon, Wisc., which certainly makes the All-Hockey All-City Team...
...seventh blockbuster, Sidney Sheldon has a great time inventing grisly ways of killing his characters. A Rumanian rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked...