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...campaigned against the EEC but less noisily than Benn. Education Minister Reginald Prentice, a leading pro-Marketeer, was switched to the Ministry of Overseas Development as a gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe...
...shrewd adaptation. Peter Benchley's novel spent too much time on dry land, plodding around Irving Wallace country, reinvestigating such tired phenomena as the uneasy marriage, the adulterous wife, the snaky seducer. In the movie, most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin), and a youthful ichthyologist named Hooper (Richard...
...that supported him through twelve years as party chief. Most of the major trade-union leaders, the party's national executive committee and more than half of the Labor M.P.s publicly opposed the Prune Minister on the issue. Wilson and such fellow Labor pro-Europeans as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Education Minister Reginald Prentice were forced into an informal coalition with Conservative and Liberal Party leaders, who almost unanimously supported the pro-Market cause...
...European capitals, where the British results were received on the 31st anniversary of Dday, there was relief over the mercifully decisive end to a debate that had kept the EEC in a state of suspended animation for the past 15 months. As Roy Jenkins observed, D-day marked "Britain's re-entry into Europe . . . Now we are staying...
...only contest that was especially exciting was in the freshman ranks. Ted Washburn's charges, thanks to some post-Sprints boat shuffling, finally came together. The shell set up with Peter Reynolds at stroke. Tom Howes at the seven seat, George Altken at six, and Roy Stevenson pulling the Pocock in the five position...