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...effect, deputy leader of the party. A short quarter step behind came Edward Heath, 48, the Tories' tough-minded, troubleshooting economics expert, who will be responsible for the party's policy planning. Back from self-imposed exile came Renegades Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell, who had refused to serve in Sir Alec's administration after the unseemly struggle for succession to Harold Macmillan's premiership just a year ago. Macleod's job: leading the Tory attack against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec...
...weighted to show that Home was everybody's compromise candidate. In fact, wrote Macleod, only two of the 13 ministers he had spoken to favored Home, while many agreed that Butler "was the right and obvious successor." Macleod resigned rather than serve under Home, as did Health Minister Enoch Powell (though Rab Butler stayed on as Foreign Secretary...
...Minister for Science and Butler as Foreign Secretary. More important, two of the party's progressive leaders were so incensed at the selection that they refused to remain in the government. The loss of Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, and of Health Minister Enoch Powell is a scar that no amount of verbal veneer can conceal...
...hate to lose him," said the warden. "Where else could I get an intelligent, dedicated man who is glad to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week?" For six and a half years, Orville Enoch Hodge had been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite...
...Long Absence. The old reliable Enoch Arden story, told with skill and significant variations by France's Henri Colpi...