A thunder as ominous as a landlady's knock reverberated through Britain last week, as voters prepared for the first time to register approval or disapproval of the new Macmillan government. Tory leaders were quick to make light of the threatening sound. "They're just exercising their right to grumble," said one, as erstwhile Conservative voters hurled loaded questions at the Tory candidate in London's teeming, pie-shaped North Lewisham constituency. But the candidate, a blacksmith's son who has become a prosperous manufacturer (structural steel), was kefauvering his way ("I'm Norman Farmer; I'd like to answer...
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