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However, Collingridge — citing Harold Macmillan's political demise after sacking half his Cabinet — effects no changes at all.
The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.
In 1961, Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government legalised betting shops and tough measures were enacted to ensure that bookmakers remained honest.
He was critical of Harold Macmillan's government, and while supporting the Conservatives was also friendly to the Hugh Gaitskell wing of the Labour Party.
She later said: ' I never regretted following Harold Macmillan's advice.
Jayne Mansfield appeared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections.
His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.
In the early 1960s, Profumo was the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government and was married to actress Valerie Hobson.
Macmillan's style of politics and that of Douglas-Home had also been regarded as old-fashioned in comparison with that of Labour's Harold Wilson, who became leader of the opposition in early 1963 following the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell.
It disliked what it regarded as the expediency, cynicism and materialism which motivated Harold Macmillan's government.
Although supportive of Harold Macmillan's appointment as Prime Minister over the rival claims of Butler in 1957, Maudling found himself in difficulties over his position in the new government.
Some recruits came from the Monday Club within the Conservative Party that had been founded in reaction to Harold Macmillan's " Wind Of Change " speech.
* Harold Macmillan's " Winds of Change " speech, in which he declared that independence for black Africans was an inevitability ;
David Heathcoat-Amory is the son of British Army Brigadier Roderick Heathcoat-Amory, MC ( son of Sir Ian Heathcoat-Amory, 2nd Baronet ) and the nephew of Harold Macmillan's Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat-Amory.
The TRG sees itself following the philosophies of Benjamin Disraeli's " One Nation " and Harold Macmillan's " Middle Way ".
This was particularly true following Harold Macmillan's Wind of Change speech in 1960 when the Tories formally broke from any notion of being the party of empire.
First serving as a junior minister under Winston Churchill for three years, he later entered Harold Macmillan's Cabinet in 1962 as Minister without Portfolio.
The BRB was created on 1 January 1963 under the Transport Act 1962 by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to inherit the railway responsibilities of the British Transport Commission, which was dissolved at the same time.
It was abolished by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government under the Transport Act, 1962 and replaced by five successor bodies:
Described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.
Fifteen years later, under the Transport Act 1962, Harold Macmillan's Conservative government dissolved the British Transport Commission and created the British Railways Board to take over its railway duties from 1 January 1963 and the Transport Holding Company to take over its bus operations from the same date.
His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.
He continued in this office in the governments of Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan until Macmillan's 1962 " Night of the Long Knives ", when he was abruptly replaced by Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, the Attorney-General.
Thorneycroft's support for Harold Macmillan in the Macmillan's successful 1957 leadership contest for the premiership led to his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, one of the most senior positions in the government.

Harold and grave
Frank Baum's grave in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).
The poem also claims Harold was buried by the sea which is consistent with William of Poitiers ' account and with the identification of the grave at Bosham Church which is only yards from Chichester Harbour and in sight of the English Channel.
King Harold had a son posthumously, called Harold Haroldsson, who may have been this man, and may also be the occupant of the grave.
* Photo of Harold Wilson's grave on Scilly Isles
Harold was keen to unify England in the face of the grave threat from William of Normandy, who had openly declared his intention to take the English throne.
Harold Rush's grave marker in Walker's Ridge Cemetery
Sir Harold Acton: the grave at " Agli Allori " evangelical cemetery in Florence
The graveyard here contains the grave of Harold Lowe, an officer on the RMS Titanic.
The grave of King Harold
Waltham Abbey is notable for the reputed grave of Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
Harold's strong association with Bosham and the recent discovery of a Saxon grave in the church has led some historians to speculate that King Harold was buried here following his death at the Battle of Hastings, rather than Waltham Abbey as is often reported.
A request to exhume the grave in Bosham church was refused by the Diocese of Chichester in December 2004, the Chancellor ruling that the chances of establishing the identity of the body as that of Harold II were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place.

Harold and is
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
Harold E. Strang, expert in switchgear design, for a long period vp & gm of the Measurements & Industrial Products Division, and who currently, approaching retirement, is vice-president and consulting engineer in the Switchgear & Control Division.
Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
One of the more substantial collections of Aldine Press books and Aldine imitations in North America is at the Harold B. Lee library on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.
Harold Guskin's approach or " taking it off the page " as he calls it is steeped in this philosophy.
However, it is likely that fewer fought in the actual battle on the Italian side: Harold Marcus notes that " several thousand " soldiers were needed in support roles and to guard the lines of communication to the rear.
President of the Church Harold B. Lee taught " The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church.
One episode in Series 5 of Steptoe and Son was entitled " Any Old Iron ", for the same reason, when Albert thinks that Harold is ' on the turn '.
Although love is central to both Christianity and Judaism, literary critic Harold Bloom ( in his Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine ) argues that their notions of love are fundamentally different.
Though this venue usually is reserved for juniors and seniors, Harold Scott insisted that Flockhart perform there in his production of William Inge's Picnic.
Others blamed pushback from the rock industry: Harold Childs, senior vice president at A & M Records, told the Los Angeles Times that " radio is really desperate for rock product " and " they're all looking for some white rock-n-roll ".
This example is attributed to Harold Hotelling.
The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).
Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.
Harold Chasen ( Bud Cort ) is a young man obsessed with death.
The pair form a bond, and Maude slowly shows Harold the pleasures of art and music ( Harold is taught to play banjo ), and teaches him how to " the most of his time on earth.

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