On the night of 18 December, Macmillan and Kennedy had a personal conversation during a walk away from the rest of the group.

Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.

Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Palgrave Macmillan ; biography based partly on his diary from 1923 to 1945 released in recent years from former Soviet archives.

She was a young woman who came to the Ryall's Hotel in Blantyre, where Harold Macmillan was lunching on the homeward leg of his famous ' wind of change ' tour in Cape Town.

The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 284 pages ; Scholarly studies on the habits, manners, networks, institutions, and public roles of the American middle class with a focus on cities in the North.

** The Beatles at 11: 30 have photographer Iain Macmillan take their photo on a zebra crossing on Abbey Road.

* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).

Colin Macmillan Turnbull ( November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994 ) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People ( on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire ) and The Mountain People ( on the Ik people of Uganda ), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

However, when Macmillan replaced Eden as Prime Minister, Powell was offered the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 January 1957.

* Charles M. Stang, editor, The Waking Dream of T. E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Macmillan — according to Cook — was not particularly fond of the slurred caricature and charade of senile forgetfulness ( marked by a failure to pronounce ' Conservative Party ' coherently ) handed down on him in Cook's impersonation.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

* Dillon, M. Foucault on Politics, Security and War, ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ).

New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan ’ s government ’ s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.

Macmillan was able to concentrate full-time on Housing, instead of being obliged, like Bevan, to combine his housing portfolio with that for Health ( which for Bevan took the higher priority ).

Macmillan served with distinction as a captain in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War, and was wounded on three occasions.

Macmillan married Lady Dorothy Cavendish, the daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 21 April 1920.

Under the managed transition of the British Empire to the Commonwealth of Nations, members of the British government, such as Harold Macmillan, liked to think of Britain's relationship with America as similar to that of a progenitor Greece to America's Rome.

South Africa left the multiracial Commonwealth in 1961 and Macmillan acquiesced to the dissolution of the Central African Federation by the end of 1963.

A Chapter in the History of the British Commonwealth, Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 426 p.

During the 1950s he held office under successively Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold Macmillan as Lord Privy Seal from 1951 to 1952, Leader of the House of Lords from 1951 to 1957, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in 1952 and Lord President of the Council from 1952 to 1957.

* Low, Donald Anthony, Constitutional Heads and Political Crises: Commonwealth Episodes, 1945 – 85, published by Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-333-46420-6

The Four Power Paris Summit between president Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle collapsed, in large part because Eisenhower refused to accede to Khrushchev's demands that he apologize for the incident.

Macmillan, himself a former Chancellor, made a famous and much-quoted remark to the effect that the resignations were merely " little local difficulties ".

As of 3 December 2007, the former Grampian name was partially resurrected at the launch of GMTV Grampian, a local news segment for North Scotland shown as part of GMTV ( now Daybreak ) and is provided by Macmillan Media, a separate company with no connection to STV.

He also helps local organisations such as Age Concern and Macmillan Cancer Care and is an honorary member of the Macclesfield & District Lions Club.

He worked briefly within local newspapers and radio stations as a copywriter before becoming an assistant editor for Macmillan Canada in 1960.

He never quite forgave Harold Macmillan for forgetting, during a visit to Corio, to give proper thanks for a rug specially woven by local mills in the Macmillan tartan.

Macmillan Cancer Support supports local information and support centres, cancer support groups, benefits advisers and cancer support specialists, and can help with practical, medical, financial and emotional support.

A commercial edition, this time with 24 chapters and focusing on local events in the 1980s and 1990s, was published in 1995 by the Caribbean imprint of Macmillan.

Stuart Sutherland exemplified the difficulty in the entry he wrote for the 1989 version of the Macmillan Dictionary of Psychology:

Macmillan was appointed as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1942, in his own words, ' leaving a madhouse in order to enter a mausoleum '.

Macmillan returned to England after the European war and was Secretary of State for Air for two months in Churchill's caretaker government, ' much of which was taken up in electioneering ', there being ' nothing much to be done in the way of forward planning '.

Two hundred mourners attended, including 64 members of the Macmillan family, Thatcher and former premiers Lord Home of the Hirsel and Edward Heath, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, and ' scores of country neighbours '.

The Conservatives increased their Commons majority in the 1959 General election of 8 October, their first with Harold Macmillan as prime minister who famously said that most people ' had never had it so good '.

Eccles and Kilmuir were the most disappointed, Eccles having hoped to succeed as Chancellor, and Kilmuir later writing that Macmillan appeared to have lost his ' nerve and judgement '.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

He deserves a better life than just rotting away on the Prieur plantation ''.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

He unhitched his horse, walked it away, mounted, and spurred it on.

The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.

David Cortlandt, having slept away a day and a night, came awake in a plank farmhouse on the Harlem River near Spuyten Duyvil.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

There's no greater catastrophe in the universe, she reflected dourly, impaling tender green beans on the silver fork, than the dwindling away of a family.

When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

After Mr. Jack drove away, Winston went on looking out the window.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

So right away Claude introduced Henri to his famous `` moon '' bench and proceeded to teach him his first Push-Pull Super-Set consisting of the wide-grip Straight-Arm Pullover ( the `` pull '' part of the Push-Pull Super-Set ) which dramatically widens the ribcage and strongly affects the muscles of the upper back and chest and the collar-to-collar Bench Press which specifically works on the chest to build those wide, Reeves-type `` gladiator '' pecs, while stimulating the upper lats and frontal deltoids.

You can cross an ocean in a fully equipped craft, sail, power, or both, or laze away a fine day in a small dinghy on a local pond.

Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.

The other has his pool far away from the house in a field high on a hill.