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...Disease.") In one of the worst gaffes of his career, Bevan denounced Conservatives-presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, as a Mirabeau and an archmediocrity. He called the humane and thoughtful Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as party leader, a "desiccated calculating machine." Nye was, as Michael Foot amply documents, his own worst enemy-although, as Labor Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin once retorted, "Not while...
...doctors appointed to the division are Clement Yahia, Raymond Reilly, Theodore C. Baron, Robert Shirley, Kenneth Blotner and John M. Leventhal. All are on staff at the Boston Hospital for Women, Lying-In Division...
...reason to sweat out the verdict: he needs money desperately. His legal expenses so far amount to at least $200,000-and they will rise much higher if, as anticipated, the Internal Revenue Service presses him for the payment of back taxes. An "Agnew Defense Fund," started by W. Clement Stone, the Chicago millionaire, so far has collected only about...
...Britain's entry into the market was now drowned out "by the strains of Pompidou and circumstance." The Labor Party's own solution to Britain's problems: what Wilson proudly calls the "most radical" program of nationalization of land and industry since the postwar government of Clement Atlee. The new nationalization would include land for industrial and residential development, the trucking industry, shipbuilders, parts of the drug, machine-tool and construction industries, as well as the new North Sea oil and gas development. Although the new Labor platform is popular with the rank and file...
After the election, Ford became Nixon's most loyal supporter in Congress, even on the most controversial issues, such as the nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. "The President and I always have had a high identity philosophically," Ford told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil the night of his selection. He favored the SST, opposed busing to integrate schools, refused to cut defense spending and was generally hawkish on the Viet Nam War. In 1970 he led the losing crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court through impeachment. Ford spent...