Prime Minister Harold Macmillan moved out of No. 10 Downing Street and will not be back for two or three years. After more than two centuries, the narrow, four-story house in which 43 British Prime Ministers have lived or worked is crumbling and in urgent need of rebuilding. Like No. 11, the residence of Chancellors of the Exchequer, and No. 12, the office of the majority party whip, the house was built about 1682 as a real estate speculation by a Harvard man named Sir George Downing; despite repeated patching and propping, its floors and walls have tilted and sagged. Sir...
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