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Strike Threats. The problems facing the new government were quick to surface. The economy is in uncertain health; the gross national product dropped 1% during the first quarter. Nonetheless, Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod will give top priority to reducing direct taxes this year as a way of heading off another round of price and wage increases...
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Iain...
...with artist seated second from the left), is surrounded by a white line so that the staid, 17th century Dutchmen appear to be figures on a television screen. Clarke thus suggests that TV's ubiquitous eye has changed everybody's way of seeing reality. Vancouver's Iain Baxter burlesques famous artists by carrying their pictorial trademarks to logical extremes. By adding ribbons to his copy of Kenneth Noland's "And Again," he has created an authentic Baxter (shown with the artist, at right). In visual language, the work snorts that if stripes alone make a painting...
...since devaluation, he was greeted by raucous cries of "Out! Out! Out!" and "Resign!" Wilson faced the inevitable vote of confidence in the Commons and won it with only a single Laborite breaking ranks. But the debate produced bitter invective and bile unparalleled during his three-year tenure. Tory Iain Macleod thundered to the House that "the country is sick to death of this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms the suspicion of the whole country that the right...
...university or not. Most people nowadays seem to prefer an educated monarch, but some feel that too much learning is dangerous for a ruler whose job, after all, is not to rule. Recalling that Elizabeth II was poorly educated when she came to the throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship." As for Charles, it would be wrong to encourage him to be "an 'ordinary' upper-class young man and enjoy life...