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...AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...slum in the Warwickshire countryside; Publisher Derick Mirfin, 33, a bright, toothy Liberal, who declared that "it's time to give the Tories a kick in the pants"; and Tory Angus Maude, 50, an able journalist and former M.P. who rebelled against the government's handling of Suez but was running on the Tories' record of service to the country...
...were the products of two remarkable political careers and also of two Britains: Macmillan, the skillful, courageous and often ruthless patrician who had rescued his country from the debris of Suez and led it into an era of unprecedented prosperity; Harold Wilson, the dry, diligent and often devious son of a provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship...
...trial at all for well-bred Britons to keep a stiff upper lip all the way through Dunkirk, the Blitz and Suez. But through eight straight losses to the U.S. in the Walker Cup-now really, chaps, that was a bit much to ask. Englishmen take their golf seriously; after all, they practically invented the game. Actually, it was the Scots-but surely the Empire still stretches that...
Died. Omar Loutfi, 55, United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs since last year, a highly respected Egyptian diplomat who persuasively represented his country at the U.N. during the 1956 Suez Crisis and as Under Secretary had been especially concerned with disarmament; of a heart attack; at the U.N. Secretariat Building in Manhattan...