Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...going sailing in his yacht, he ran it aground. When reporters asked about the attractive woman he had taken along, Heath, who is Britain's first bachelor Prime Minister since Arthur Balfour in 1902, archly dismissed questions of a possible romance. "Absolute nonsense," said Heath. "She's a friend of the navigator's." When photographers asked him to pose drinking beer with the boys in the pub, Heath replied: "No, thanks. I've got whisky in the plane." Journalists found his electioneering style dreary compared with Wilson. "Covering Heath," complained one reporter, "is like covering El Salvador in the World...
...Heath was smiling broadly and talking with enthusiasm. "That was the moment," a friend recalls. Someone started cautiously laying out half a dozen bottles of champagne. Four hours later, Heath was sitting in the bar of the Crook Log Hotel when television brought him the evening's first return: a 4% swing to the Tories in Guildford. Heath marched happily out of the bar and drove a mile to the town's Territorial Army drill hall, where the votes were being counted. Inside the hall, Bexley's mayor grabbed Heath's hand and pumped it in congratulation: a 7% swing...
HOME SECRETARY: Reginald Maudling, 53, the Tories' Deputy Leader for the past five years and a merchant banker. A veteran member of Tory Cabinets (former Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Maudling came close to beating Heath for party leadership in 1965, but is now his friend. A relaxed, easygoing man, he must cope with two of the toughest domestic problems, law-and-order and race...
Perhaps our uncertainty is symbolized by the uneasy experience of a New York architect, 31, who lived with his girl friend for a year before marriage. The under-30s never even thought about the arrangement; the over-40s vocally disapproved. Many of his contemporaries, on the other hand, were obviously disturbed but said nothing, uncertain of their own feelings or afraid of being thought square. "The short-hairs and the naked-faces have a hard time being real," asserts a bearded 27-year-old with amiable contempt. And he is right...
...FRIEND picked me up at the San Diego airport last Christmas and drove me 15 miles to where I live. As I got out of the car, I saw my little brother watering the green grass under a blue...