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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. [1] Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability.
Macmillan's credibility was also affected by the 1963 Profumo affair; he was now in his 69th year, and had until after his 70th birthday to call the next general election. The election of Harold Wilson as Labour Party leader early in the year, following the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell , was well received by voters, with opinion polls showing ...
By early 1997, Parker’s puzzle became the "Universal Crossword" syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to newspapers and clients worldwide. In 1999, together with Universal Press Syndicate’s Uclick division, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, and is the founder and senior editor of the Universal Uclick line of crossword puzzles and games.
Robert Kenneth Wilson MB BChir, FRCSEd (26 January 1899 – 6 June 1969) was a general surgeon and gynaecologist in London, who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. This became known as "the surgeon's photograph" and was widely regarded as genuine, although scepticism was expressed about this from the ...
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
Pacesetter Novels are a collection of 130 works of popular fiction written by notable African authors, published by Macmillan. [1] The series was started in 1977, with the first book being Director! by Agbo Areo.
Not long after Wilson's resignation as Prime Minister, Haines published a book The Politics of Power about his experience of British political life. Attention mainly concentrated on two chapters about Marcia Williams (now Falkender) and her influence. Haines said that Williams' troublesome presence had been the real cause of Wilson's resignation.
[2] [3] His book The Third British Empire was among the first to apply the expression "British Commonwealth" to the British Empire. [4] He was a prominent liberal internationalist . [ 5 ] He was also credited with coining the phrase " welfare state ", [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] which was made popular a few years later by William Temple .