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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...
...family in which Bobbie (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) grow up is nearly perfect. Mother (Dinah Sheridan) is impish and radiant, Father (Iain Cuthbertson) steadfast and affectionate. They all share the joys of Edwardian London, generous' Christmases and outings to the theater. But one evening two strange men appear and call Father away. "Some dire calamity is happening," says Bobbie, "I just know it." Indeed, Father does not return, and Mother tells the children that they will have to "play at being poor...
Many of the initial "A. and T." projects did not jell. Some were enchantingly eccentric, like George Brecht's suggestion that the Rand Corp. help him move the land mass of the British Isles into the Mediterranean. Others, like Iain Baxter's dream of a radio-controlled inflatable cloud patrolling over Los Angeles, never got off the ground. Some business firms became nervous and balked. Claes Oldenburg's collaboration with Disneyland began with his intense curiosity about "what people who have been making animals without genitalia for 30 years are like," and ended with Disneyland abandoning...
...DEATH: Heath was relying heavily on Iain Macleod, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to draft the blueprint for a new Tory economic structure, to overhaul the tax system and to restore incentives so as to "release the energies of the people." But last week Macleod died suddenly at 56 of a heart attack following an appendectomy from which he had seemed to be recuperating nicely. Macleod and Heath were charter members of the "One Nation" Group formed by liberal Tories in 1950. Borrowing Disraeli's philosophy as well as his phraseology, they sought to destroy the image of the Conservatives...
...Died. Iain Macleod, 56, Britain's recently appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer (see THE WORLD...