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...last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill uncorked a rare exception to the formula. As his new Minister of Health, one of the toughest jobs in the government, he appointed Iain Macleod, a wee but peppery native of the Scotch-bibbing Western Isles who is only 38 and has barely completed two years in Parliament...
Before the week was done, the wily old political warrior made known his plans to give junior cabinet rank to several backbenchers, including brainy young Iain MacLeod, who successfully argued down Nye Bevan last month, and who writes a bridge column for the Sunday Times...
...Backroom Boy. It was Bevan at his crudest-but this time he got an answer. From an unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan...
...House entered its second all-night sitting, Macleod was still on his feet, but Nye Bevan had fled...
...exploit gave the U.S. and Canada a perfect record for reciprocal lend-lease in medical imposters. Quebec-born William Renwick MacLeod did his practicing without a license in the U.S., went to jail for it (TIME, Sept...