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...Spoofing Mac was also the rage on television. The once staid BBC, which has reacted to competition from commercial TV with racy vigor, brought nationwide complaints with a satirical TV revue called That Was the Week That Was. One of the most outrageous TWTWTW skits featured a doctored newsreel of Macmillan, making it appear as if he were saying exactly the opposite of everything he really said. Another had Macmillan telephoning the White House. Says he: "Hello, Jack, this is Harold . . . Harold Macmillan . . . Macmillan...
...betters who jam the Eastern tracks admire Dancer's aggressive racing tactics ("I like to get out front fast and stay there"), crowd the paddock before each race pleading: "Hey, Dancer! You feelin! O.K. tonight! Hey, Dancer! Win us a few, huh?" His eight-year-old gelding, Su Mac Lad, has won more money ($567,849) than any other trotter in history, in 1961 became the only U.S. horse to win the Roosevelt International, and two weeks ago was named 1962's Harness Horse of the Year. Henry T. Adios, another Dancer-trained colt, is this year...
MacDonald, Britain's first socialist Prime Minister, "Mac" MacDonald as Governor General in Malaya spurred the far-reaching social and economic reforms that helped turn the tide there against the Communists. Later he served as Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, last year was handed the delicate task of presiding (with a Soviet cochairman) over the protracted negotiations that led to the coalition government in Laos. A breezily informal administrator, MacDonald has frequently horrified pukka sahibs by allowing his photograph to be taken while walking hand in hand with bare-breasted native beauties. Among East-of-Suez Blimps, he earned...
...Corp., maker of a celebrated string of fighter planes and the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, is worth $149 million. In the sharply competitive aerospace business, where losses come easily, McDonnell's profits have increased for twelve straight years, amounted to $13.9 million in 1962. Crusty, M.I.T.-trained "Mac" McDonnell, who controls the company with his 13% stock ownership, runs it all (TIME, March...
...Mac, by Erih Kos. When a great whale is dragged into Belgrade, everyone pays obeisance to it in this hilarious spoof of conformity...