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...British Conservative Party's "class of 1950" was perhaps the most impressive collection of young Tories ever to enter the House of Commons at one time. In its ranks were Edward Heath, Iain Macleod, Enoch Powell and Reginald Maudling, who together were to hold most of Britain's top offices of state during the next two decades. Yet now, only two years after the Conservatives' return to power, Prime Minister Heath has lost the services of all three of his longtime colleagues. Macleod died in 1970, shortly after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer. Powell was excluded from...
...still in love with his wife," meaning that he had remained more wedded to his wife Beryl, a former dancer and actress, than to his job. But between 1952 and 1964 Maudling held seven ministerial posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1965 he was narrowly defeated by Heath for the party leadership...
...Winchester and Cambridge, had soldiered with honor in the Scots Guards, and had gone on to Parliament. Little known outside the Commons, Whitelaw became the leader of the Tories' liberal wing on almost every issue from Rhodesia to labor relations. He also was influential in persuading Prime Minister Heath to institute direct rule over Ulster-a step strongly opposed by right-wing Tories and their Unionist Party allies...
...Friday morning the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath had had enough. Rather than continue using up its foreign currency reserves, it announced that it would let the pound temporarily "float"-that is, trade on international exchanges at any price set by supply and demand. That move in effect devalued the pound, and it quickly sank as low as $2.46 in New York City. The drop canceled two-thirds of the increase in the pound's dollar value, from $2.40 to $2.6057, that was agreed upon in Washington, D.C., in last December's realignment of currencies, called...
...many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller" and "heathen" from "dweller on the heath.") For centuries, magical arts and Christianity lived in uneasy coexistence, as they still do in Latin American countries. But then, out of ancient lore and the minds of medieval churchmen, came the Devil...