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...drug producers, airlines and electronics companies, and down on hotel chains, real estate firms, savings and loan associations. Perhaps it is time to be wary when most Wall Streeters start talking alike, and perhaps the market will take a beating if tax-cut hopes fail. But there is a consensus on Wall Street that the bull is strong and there is still plenty of margin...
...party, the process of selection seemed to verify the Laborite charge that Conservatives really are anachronistic Tory gentlemen. Unlike their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...
...present time, some of the schools within the University maintain, their own listings of apartments, which has led to some duplication and confusion. The consensus among University officials is that the new centrally located office will avoid much of the present confusion, and allow a greater degree of attention to the problems of individual students...
...Toward a Consensus. The portly Science Minister, who at previous conferences has landed on front pages by ringing hand bells ("for Britain") and taking dips in the frigid ocean, captured the morning headlines with his announcement. But the photographers were not disappointed. Hailsham-or Quintin McGarel Hogg, M.P., as he would like to be-captured all eyes with a robust twist at a Young Conservative dance; later he captured all lapels when his friend Randolph Churchill started distributing heroic Q (for Quintin) campaign buttons...
Unlike the Labor Party, the Tories hold no formal elections to choose a leader. Instead, their party officials, senior ministers and elder statesmen go through an elaborate, private process of divination aimed at reaching what is euphemistically called "the consensus" of the party; when they have settled on a candidate who is acceptable to both Cabinet and parliamentary party and looks like a vote getter to boot, the name is presented for routine approval to the Queen. Thus Macmillan's successor will probably not be announced until after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 24 and the Prime Minister formally resigns...