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...Britons studied the new faces that sprouted in place of Mac's axed heads, even critics had to admit the addition of considerable brainpower. Reginald Maudling made an impressive new Chancellor of the Exchequer (see box). Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle, 38, is a courageous, cultivated "Suez rebel" who has served with distinction in lower-echelon government posts, including the Ministry of Education, and recognizes Britain's urgent need for expanded technical education...
Pink Toryism. As the shock wore off, Britons began to see the method in Mac's massacre. Weeks ago, Harold Macmillan had concluded from the Tories' disquieting series of election reverses that Britain did not want a change of party so much as a change within the party. Cobwebbed Conservative policies and lackluster leaders have succeeded in alienating a large segment of the young, middle-class voters who swept the party into office eleven years ago in response to the forward-looking policies that were dubbed "pink Toryism." To woo them back, Macmillan plucked from his front...
...room on his Cabinet team for new faces. Harold Macmillan last week again proved that he can be both flappable and ruthless. In a move that shook Britain, he summarily fired seven members of his 21-man Cabinet and reshuffled twice as many portfolios. Inevitably, the press called him "Mac the Knife...
...another side of the social life, a Cambridge gentlewomen advertised that "Harvard '09 men agreed it was 'remarkable' to learn the WALTZ in three (private) lessons." For formal wear, it was the "Mac Hurdle" full dress shirt: Absolutely no bulge," Mac Hurdle claimed; the patented band and bosom does...
...argue that the fast-spreading use of stamps is destroying their competitive appeal. "They don't give an edge any more," says one grocer. "They just let you keep up with the competition. But it will be years before we can get rid of them, if ever." Benignly, Mac MacDonald agrees. Within two years, he predicts, trading stamps will be a $2 billion business. And in three years, he says, without so much as a glance at front-running S. & H., Plaid stamps "will be No. 1 in the country...