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...taken to wearing longer hair, buckled shoes, flowered ties and modish suits to appeal to a younger following. Vows McGovern: "If Senator Kennedy or anyone else gets that nomination, they are going to have to take it away from me. I'm not yielding to anyone." Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, who recently withdrew from contention, insists: "George is not a stalking horse for anybody. He's in it to win. He's serious. But he doesn't have a chance." At any rate, if he were not in the race, the party would be further...
...when I left No. 10, and I'm still in the red," announced Britain's former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. For proof, he let his latest bank statement be photographed; it showed a hefty overdraft. "It represents," Wilson quipped wanly, "a sort of balance-of-payments crisis." Dubious Britons noted that he has just sold his memoirs to the Sunday Times for such poundage that even Timesman reportedly were afraid to admit the price. Insiders guess Wilson's fee is between $576,000 and $624,000-enough to turn all his red ink black...
Four years ago, then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson conjured a stirring vision for his countrymen. "Out of the destruction of two world wars," he said, Europe was about "to create a new unity," with Britain a major participant in that grand venture. Despite those ringing words, suspicion began to grow about the depth of Wilson's commitment to joining the six-member European Economic Community. By March 1970, with an election imminent and the polls showing heavy antiMarket sentiment, Wilson seemed so uncertain about it that Tory Leader Edward Heath, who was to replace him as Prime Minister three...
Poisoned Water. Not that Wilson occupies an easy position. Caught between the party's antiMarket majority and its vocal pro-Marketeers, he cannot hope to please everyone. As Harold Lever, an ardently pro-Market M.P., put it: "Poor Harold Wilson! If he drank the water, it was poisoned. If he didn't drink, he'd die of thirst...
...Buying Change. Business is up at some department stores, but overall retail sales are averaging only about 5% above last year's disappointing levels. Since prices have inflated about 5% in the past year, the actual volume of goods sold is about the same as in 1970. Says Harold Brockey, president of Rich's department store in Atlanta: "We look for no real upturn until...